This book offers an overview of the rapidly expanding field
of Psycho-Social research. Drawing on aspects of discourse psychology,
continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings
of the emotions, psycho-social studies has emerged as an embryonic new paradigm
in the human sciences. Psycho-social studies uses psychoanalytic concepts and
principles to illuminate core issues within the social sciences. The present
volume contributes to the development of the new research methodologies in a
number of ways. It is written largely from the point of view of practitioners
who are also researchers. Although contributors draw largely upon
object-relations traditions in psychoanalysis, other influences are also
present, particularly from continental philosophy and the sociology of the
emotions. It develops an approach to epistemology - how we know what we know,
which is strongly informed by a living approach to psychoanalysis, not just as
a theory but as a way of being in the world - that is as a stance. It examines,
in great depth and from a number of perspectives, the complex psycho-social
dynamics that characterise the research encounter. And finally, it demonstrates
a number of specific methodologies at work and the authors learning from this
experience. (amazon) (kindle 2012-11-24)
