Main description:

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.

Contents:

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 Kachele

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-Maria Rizzuto

Metaphors for the Patient's Self as a Multiple Bridge for Clinical Research
Beatriz de Leon 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
Jose Carlos Calich

Clinical Groups on the Specificity of Psychoanalysis Today. A New Research Method for Clinical Understanding
Ana Maria Chabalgoity, Cesar Luis de Souza Brito, and Ema Ponce de Leon

Faimberg's Method 'Listening to listening'
Haydee Faimberg

Developing the Capacity for Clinical Investigation: The Working Party 'Microscopy of the Analytic Session'
Roosevelt M.S. Cassorla, Ana Clara Duarte Gaviao, and Claudia Aparecida Carneiro

Zoe
Luisa Perez 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
Cesar Luis de Souza Brito and Ana Maria Chabalgoity

Metaphor Transformations in the 3-LM: A Systematic Clinical Exercise with Zoe's Case
Andrea Rodriguez 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 Rodriguez 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 Perez 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