Researching Beneath the Surface

by Clarke, Simon; Hoggett, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781855756182
• ISBN10: 1855756188
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Paul Hoggett is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, a member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy, Associate Member of the Lincoln and is also an experienced group relations consultant. His books include Partisans in an Uncertain World and Emotional Life and the Politics of Welfare. He is a board member of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, and has editorial roles on Organisational Social Dynamics, Psychodynamic Practice and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Simon Clarke is Professor of Psycho-Social Studies and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Social Theory, Psychoanalysis and Racism, From Enlightenment to Risk: Social Theory and Contemporary Society and Emotion, Politics and Society (co-edited with Hoggett and Thompson). He is a member of the board of directors of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society and Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture Society

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
About the editors and Contributors	p. ix
Researching beneath the surface: a psycho-social approach to research practice and method	p. 1
Ways of Knowing	p. 27
Experiencing knowledge: the vicissitudes of a research journey	p. 29
How to live and learn: learning, duration, and the virtual	p. 51
When words are not enough	p. 79
The Dynamics of the Research Encounter	p. 99
Charting the clear waters and the murky depths	p. 101
Fear-and psycho-social interviewing	p. 121
The use of self as a research tool	p. 145
Methods of Inquiry and Analysis	p. 167
Seeing ↔ believing, dreaming ↔ thinking: some methodological mapping of view points	p. 169
Autobiography as a psycho-social research method	p. 193
Managing self in role: using multiple methodologies to explore self construction and self governance	p. 215
Analysing discourse psycho-socially	p. 241
Index	p. 267
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