Researching Beneath the Surface

Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice - Second Edition

Anne-Marie Cummins, Nigel Williams (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2018
Karnac Books (Verlag)
978-1-78220-412-1 (ISBN)

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Contributions in this volume cover ways of knowing, the dynamics of research encounters, new methods of psycho-social inquiry, and the first-hand experience of being a researcher. Since the first volume of Researching Beneath the Surface was published by Karnac in 2009, psycho-social research has become both more established but also more held to scrutiny by a new generation of researchers, practitioners, and clinicians. This volume offers a timely exploration of developments in psycho-social research since that date and brings together a series of papers in which both longstanding contributors to the field and new researchers explore tensions, possibilities and innovations in psycho-socially inspired research.This new volume showcases these advances in psycho-social research methods. The focus is on methodological dilemmas, innovations in method and methodology, and on experiences of conducting psycho-social research in challenging contexts. It also focusses on the contested but pivotal role of psychoanalysis in psycho-social research and explores what can be added by transdisciplinary use of deep ecology, continental philosophy and relational approaches as alternative or supplementary ways of knowing. Finally, the book also offers fresh insight into the practical and emotional issues of conducting oneself as a psycho-social researcher and learning from experience.

Anne-Marie Cummins is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research interests are the emotional factors which enter into teaching and learning and in particular resistances, both emotional and political, to current educational regimes in Higher Education. She has worked in the Group Relations field for some time and is Award Leader of the Masters in Group Relations at the University of the West of England. Her work is informed by both psychoanalytic and sociological thought and addresses the passions and politics invoked by trying to teach and learn in modern organisational life. Nigel Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Sociology, and a member of the Psycho-Social Studies research network at UWE. He is engaged in in Psycho-Social research that reaches across boundaries to deepen and inform professional practices. He lectures in psycho-social and Beneath the Surface methodologies, systems and complexity theory, and intergenerational memory. He is an organisational consultant and is a registered and qualified psychotherapist and supervisor with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. His has recently published an essay, 'The Anglo-German diaspora', in 'The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History and Memory' edited by Michael O'Loughlin (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2014).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION: Researching beneath the surface—a continuing journey

PART I: KNOWING

CHAPTER ONE

"As easy as to know . . .": on the tensions between psychoanalysis and psychosocial research

Jem Thomas

CHAPTER TWO

The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument: from intuition to surrender

Lita Crociani-Windland

CHAPTER THREE

Leaders and their relation to nature

Rembrandt Zegers

PART II: DOING

CHAPTER FOUR

Researching powerful people: the experience of having access to them

Louisa Diana Brunner

CHAPTER FIVE

"Every human being is an artist": from social representation to creative experiences of self

Julian Manley

CHAPTER SIX

Prospects for the Listening Post as a psycho-social methodology

Anne-Marie Cummins

PART III: EXPERIENCING

CHAPTER SEVEN

The challenges of being a mature doctoral student: the supportive role of vertical and lateral third spaces

Rose Redding Mersky

CHAPTER EIGHT

Markers and milestones: learning to navigate the psycho-social research journey

Jane Woodend

CHAPTER NINE

Finding "self" when looking for "other": intrasubjectivity in the research encounter

Nadine Riad Tchelebi

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	1-78220-412-1 / 1782204121
ISBN-13	978-1-78220-412-1 / 9781782204121
Zustand	Neuware