Clinical Research in Psychoanalysis: Theoretical Basis and Experiences Through Working Parties

This book looks at the place of clinical research in psychoanalysis, drawing on the work of a number of IPA working parties from a range of different schools of psychoanalytic thought.

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 scientific inquiry. It provides an innovative experience as it presents the investigation of the same clinical material using different methods, which allows the reader to have a vision of the different methods that are currently used in the field of working parties of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and to have a notion of 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. 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 which will expand our perspectives on the evidence we find in clinical material and 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 and will be invaluable to psychoanalytic candidates, teachers and students.