Kalina Stamenova, PhD, FHEA, is a research fellow and a lecturer at the University of Essex. Her research interests involve psychoanalytic research methods, psychoanalysis and education, and psychoanalysis and organisations.

R. D. Hinshelwood is a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has always had a part-time commitment to the public service (NHS and universities) and to teaching psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He has written on Kleinian psychoanalysis and on the application of psychoanalysis to social science and political themes. He has taken an interest in and published on the problems of making evidenced comparisons between different schools of psychoanalysis.

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Foreword

Introduction: Kalina Stamenova and R.D. Hinshelwood

PART ONE: AN OVERVIEW OF QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES

Chapter One: A Psychoanalytic View of Qualitative Methodology: Observing the Elemental Psychic World in Social Processes by Karl FiglioPART TWO ¿PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA COLLECTION

PART TWO: PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA COLLECTION

INTERVIEWING

Chapter Two: The socioanalytic interview by Susan Long

Chapter Three: Psychoanalytic perspectives on the qualitative research interview by Nick Midgley and Joshua HolmesChapter Four: Psycho-societal Interpretation of the Unconscious Dimensions in Everyday Life by Henning Salling Olesen and Thomas LeithäuserChapter Five: Using psychoanalytic research interview as an experimental `laboratory¿ by Simona Reghintovschi

OBSERVATIONS

Chapter Six: Psychoanalytic observation ¿ the mind as research instrument by Wilhelm SkogstadChapter Seven: The contribution of psychoanalytically informed observation methodologies in nursery organisations by Peter Elfer

PART THREE: PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA HANDLING AND DATA ANALYSIS

VISUAL METHODS

Chapter Eight: Social Photo-Matrix and Social Dream-Drawing by Rose Redding Mersky & Burkard Sievers

OPERATIONALISATION

Chapter Nine: There goes a duck: Operationalising abductive inferences by Gillian Walker and R.D. HinshelwoodChapter Ten: Comparative analysis of overlapping psychoanalytic concepts using operationalisation by Kalina Stamenova

NARRATIVE ANALYSIS

Chapter Eleven: Psychoanalysis in narrative research by Lisa Saville Young & Stephen Frosh

Chapter Twelve: Researching Dated, Situated Subjectivities by Biographic-Narrative Interview: psychoanalysis, the psychosocietal unconscious, and BNIM interpretation by Tom Wengraf

PSYCHO-SOCIETAL ETHNOGRAPHY

Chapter Thirteen: Psychoanalytic ethnography by Linda Lundgaard AndersenConclusion: R.D. Hinshelwood and Kalina StamenovaIndex