Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytically Informed Research - Volume II

This is the second volume of a previously successful Research Topic. For context and continuity, please refer to the first volume here.The principal empirical field of a psychoanalytic inquiry is the conscious and unconscious dimensions of a psychoanalytic patient’s or, in an applied study, a research subject’s subjective experience. Its method requires the observer to listen to the patient or research subject as attentively and openly as possible, reflect on distorting or empathic preconceptions and affective reactions in him - or herself, and elucidate these observations with psychoanalytic theory.Our aim in this volume remains to offer a venue for studies grounded in psychoanalysis either by addressing a psychoanalytically relevant research question (for example, focusing on unconscious aspects of the experiences of individuals or groups in clinical or social contexts) and/or by employing a psychoanalytically informed method. Psychoanalytically informed studies in the arts as well as empirical research may widen or narrow the scope and methods of a given inquiry. In empirical studies, depending on the research question, the methodological arsenal may also include quantitative methods.Multidisciplinary studies that include psychoanalytic perspectives are welcomed, as are historical reviews, including critical discussions, of issues related to psychoanalysis or of psychoanalysis itself. It is essential that submitted manuscripts reflect a serious and knowledgeable familiarity with whatever facet of psychoanalytic theory or practice is applied or addressed in the study. Topic editors: David Titelman, Henrik Enckell, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/78387/psychoanalysis-and-psychoanalytically-informed-research---volume-ii