Aims

- to introduce the students to the technics of research in clinical psychoanalytical psychology, especially the analysis of psychotherapeutical interview and of artistical creation (e.a. novel and myths) useful for the understanding of a research subject in clinical psychology.
- to develop the critical mind of the students concerning the research and publications in this field.
- to give the students all the informations concerning the research and publications they will have to realize in the frame of their studies and their profession.

Main themes

Main foundings of the research in clinical psychoanalytical psychology.
Wording of the questions and research hypotheses.
Analysis of the literature and gathering of data of various types: bibliography, biography, monography, literary works, interviews in clinical research. Modes and limits.
Use and abuse of the clinical labels.
Transfer of the researcher.
Data anlysis: synthesis, interpretation and surinterpretation, integration of the transferential moves, double reading, limits of the method and excessive generalization.
Return to the literature on the subject.
Synthesis and conclusion.

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