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  An appropriate research paradigm for evaluating psychoanalytically-informed practices
 
 
Title: An appropriate research paradigm for evaluating psychoanalytically-informed practices
Author: Hallway, Wendy
Appeared in: Infant observation
Paging: Volume 7 (2004) nr. 2-3 pages 26-42
Year: 2004-05-01
Contents: Psychoanalytically-informed practices are under pressure to evaluate their effectiveness via research. This article argues that some of the principles and assumptions of scientific research, qualitative as well as quantitative, are inappropriate for this purpose. A brief critique of the positivist paradigm as applied to human and social sciences research focuses on its incapacity to address meaning and experience in the context of the research relationship. The article goes on to discuss the inadequacy of statistical generalisation for the kinds of research questions relevant to psychoanalytically-informed practices and outlines an alternative set of principles for extrapolation from qualitative data and case studies. It uses examples from attachment research and the Hampstead Index project. An alternative approach involves an understanding of the production and analysis of research data informed both epistemologically and ontologically by psychoanalysis. Such an approach is discussed in relation to the 'defended' research subject, the idea of objectivity in Winnicott and Bion, transference and counteriransference in the research relationship and the exemplary supports provided for practitioners of infant observation to foster learning by experience.
Publisher: Routledge
Source file: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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