Pluralism and Unity?: Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis(The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library)

Table of Contents:
The International Psychoanalysis Library -- Foreword -- Pluralism and unity in psychoanalytic research: some introductory remarks -- The pluralism of sciences and psychoanalytic thinking -- Plurality of sciences and the unity of reason -- Between hermeneutics and natural science: some focal points in the development of psychoanalytic clinical theory in Germany after 1945 -- Freud and psychoanalytic research: a brief historical overview -- What are we looking for? How? -- What does conceptual research have to offer? -- What kind of evidence makes the analyst change his or her theoretical and technical ideas? -- The logic of psychoanalytic research -- Attachment theory and long-term psychoanalytic outcome: are insecure attachment narratives less accurate? -- Psychotherapy with a victim of extreme violence: clinical case report and qualitative analysis -- Preliminaries for an integration of psychoanalysis and neuroscience -- Two pathways towards knowing psychoanalytic process -- Psychoanalysis and science: some remarks on demarcation and legitimation -- Appendix

About the Author :
Jorge Canestri, M.D, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst. Training and supervising analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytical Association and for the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. Mary S. Sigourney Award recipient 2004. Professor of Psychology of Health at the Roma 3 University. Editor of the Educational Section of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. President of the Italian Psychoanalytical Association. Has published numerous psychoanalytical papers in books and reviews including 'Language, Symbolisation and Psychosis'. Anna Ursula Dreher trained as a psychoanalyst in the German Psychoanalytic Association. After working at the Social Psychological Research Centre of the University of Saarbrucken, she spent six years at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt, and was involved in research on psychoanalytic concepts. She is now in private practice in Frankfurt, and lectures in psychoanalysis and psychology at the universities of Hanover and Giessen. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is a training analyst in the German Psychoanalytical Association, former Chair of the Research Subcommittees for Conceptual Research, and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. She is Vice Chair of the Research Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Full Professor for Psychoanalysis at the University of Kassel, and head Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt/Main. Her main research fields include epistemology and methods of clinical and empirical research in psychoanalysis, interdisciplinary discourse with embodied cognitive science, educational sciences, and modern German literature.

Review :
"This volume challenges any belief in a uniform view of science and related research activities. Indeed, the choice of authors in this collection illustrates the diversity of psychoanalytic research cultures across the International Psychoanalytic Association. It shows how the basic tenets of psychoanalysis are being critically examined through various approaches. The relations and differences between clinical, conceptual and empirical research are discussed, taking into account epistemological, cultural and historical factors."--Anne-Marie Sandler