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John Lees
Psychodynamic Practice, Routledge, May 2005, Vol. 11, No. 2: 117–31.
This paper surveys the history of psychoanalytic research from Freud until the present day and identifies a dominant research stream which has existed since Freud's day. It then identifies two further stands of research and concludes by elaborating briefly on an approach to research which can be referred to as psychotherapeutic.
Joanne Brown
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Routledge, July 2006, Vol. 9, No. 3: 181–97.
This paper highlights what psychoanalysis can add to discussions of reflexivity, by specifically describing how reflexivity is conceptualized and fostered on psychoanalytic observation methods courses at the Tavistock Clinic, London. It is demonstrated that this psychological form of reflexivity is relevant to empirical and conceptual work and shown that it shares interesting parallels with debates about reflexivity in social research methods, while also being able to contribute to discussions of what constitutes reflexivity and what kinds of methods course might facilitate it. Reflexivity is often discussed in relation to a researcher's empirical work, but this paper argues that reflexivity is equally needed in relation to the academic context in which most research and learning takes place. This paper demonstrates how psychoanalytic approaches to learning stimulate a reflexive relation to empirical and conceptual work and it provides examples of reflexivity from a two-year infant observation and a research project on romantic love (involving conceptual and biographical research).