Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis

Theoretical Basis and Experiences through Working Parties
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-76038-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Reihe: The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series

This book offers different theoretical approaches about what clinical research is.

Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis is a unique contribution to the attempts to bridge the gap between clinicians and researchers and to create a culture of a more rigorous and systematic inquiry. It provides an innovative experience because for the first time different methods and perspectives were used to analyse one same clinical material. This was done by analysts from different working parties of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA), from a range of different schools of psychoanalytic thought. This allows the reader to have a vision of the different methods that are currently being used by some working parties of the IPA and to learn about the strengths of each one for certain situations and types of research. This book revaluates clinical research, intending to make links between the analysts working through the working parties and the different ways of thinking in clinical research. By covering key topics, such as how working parties can facilitate different types of research; the place of metaphor in psychoanalytic research and practice; and the future for psychoanalytic research, this text is a fruitful dialogue between different theoretical conceptions and between clinicians and researchers, that will expand our perspectives on the evidence we find in clinical material and will broaden our views on the patient.

This book offers a unique and invaluable experience to psychologists and psychoanalysts who are trying to improve their clinical practice and bring research evidence into their psychoanalytic practice. It is an invaluable contribution to psychoanalytic training of candidates, teachers, and students.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altmann De Litvan, Marina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The Mysterious Leap from Clinical Practice to Clinical Research

Liana Pinto Chaves

- What Is Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis? Some Comments on Its Scientific Background

Anna Ursula Dreher

- Commentary

Judy Kantrowitz



- Researching Subjectivity: Single-Case Studies and Psychoanalytic Knowledge

Robert Douglas Hinshelwood

- Discussion

Charles Hanly

- Moving from Clinical Inquiry to Clinical Research

Ricardo Bernardi

- Improving the Interface: Comments on Bernardi: Moving from Clinical Inquiry to Clinical Research

Horst Kächele

- What is ‘Clinical Research’? Historical, Epistemological, and Methodological Remarks on the Relevance of Clinical Research in Times of Theoretical and Scientific Pluralism

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber

- Discussion by Bradley Peterson: Scientific Investigation in Psychoanalysis

Bradley S. Peterson



- Clinical Research: The Role of Metaphors in the Analytic Process

Ana-María Rizzuto

- Metaphors for the Patient’s Self as a Multiple Bridge for Clinical Research

Beatriz de León de Bernardi

Part IV Working Parties as Research Tools?

- Working Parties as Clinical Research

William Glover and Bernard Reith

- Opening Psychoanalytic Space in First Interviews: An Overview of the Aims and Findings of the EPF Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis

Bernard Reith

- Is the Three-Level Model a Clinical Research Tool?

Marina Altmann de Litvan, Ricardo Bernardi, and Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick-Hanly

- The Working Party on Comparative Clinical Methods (CCM) and the Investigation in Psychoanalysis

José Carlos Calich

- Clinical Groups on the Specificity of Psychoanalysis Today. A New Research Method for Clinical Understanding

Ana María Chabalgoity, César Luís de Souza Brito, and Ema Ponce de León

- Faimberg’s Method ‘Listening to listening’

Haydée Faimberg

- Developing the Capacity for Clinical Investigation: The Working Party ‘Microscopy of the Analytic Session’

Roosevelt M.S. Cassorla, Ana Clara Duarte Gavião, and Cláudia Aparecida Carneiro



- Zoe

Luisa Pérez Suquilvide

- Panel: How Are Metaphors Identified and Elaborated by the Different Working Parties?

Elizabeth Lima da Rocha Barros

- A Clinical Illustration on the Working Party on the Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment Today – Latin American Group

César Luís de Souza Brito and Ana María Chabalgoity

- Metaphor Transformations in the 3-LM: A Systematic Clinical Exercise with Zoe’s Case

Andrea Rodríguez Quiroga de Pereira, Bruno Salesio, and Adela Leibovich de Duarte

- A Descriptive Comparison of First Interviews Under the Light of 3-LM and Initiating Psychoanalysis

Andrea Rodríguez Quiroga de Pereira



- The Impact of Clinical Investigation on the Analyst

Vera Regina Fonseca

- The Analyst’s Perspective: Commonalities and Differences of Working Parties on a Clinical Material

Luisa Pérez Suquilvide

- Clinical Psychoanalytic Research with the Working Party Method: State of the Art

Rudi Vermote

- Working Groups and the Search for Clinical Evidence’

Ricardo Bernardi

- Clinical Research in Working Parties Through Metaphors

Marina Altmann de Litvan

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Altmann de Litvan, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychoanalyst (IPA) and a training and supervising analyst of the Uruguayan Psychoanalytical Association. Chair of the Clinical Research Subcommittee and Former Chair of the Clinical Observation Committee of the IPA (2010-2017). Ste received the Mary Sigourney Award 2017.