Foundations for Conceptual Research in Psychoanalysis

Anna Ursula Dreher trained as a psychoanalyst in the German Psychoanalytic Association. After working at the Social Psychological Research Centre of the University of Saarbrucken, she spent six years at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt, and was involved in research on psychoanalytic concepts. She is now in private practice in Frankfurt, and lectures in psychoanalysis and psychology at the universities of Hanover and Giessen.

Introduction , Preliminary methodological reflections , About the Freudian “Junktim” , Research with and without numbers , Conceptual research in the Hampstead Index Project , Conceptual research in the Trauma Project , Concluding methodological reflections