%0 Journal Article
%T Expanding Subjectivities: Introduction to the Special Issue on ¡®New Directions in Psychodynamic Research¡¯
%A Stephen Soldz
%A Linda Lundgaard Andersen
%J Journal of Research Practice
%D 2012
%I Athabasca University Press
%X A major theme in recent psychoanalytic thinking concerns the use of therapist subjectivity, especially ¡°countertransference,¡± in understanding patients. This thinking converges with and expands developments in qualitative research regarding the use of researcher subjectivity as a tool to understanding, especially but not exclusively in observational and interview-based studies. Psychodynamic or psychoanalytic approaches to research add an emphasis on unconscious motivational processes in both researchers and research participants that impact research experience and data. Building upon Anglo-Saxon and continental traditions, this special issue provides examples of the use of researcher subjectivity, informed by psychoanalytic thinking, in expanding research understanding.
%K psychoanalysis
%K psychodynamics
%K research method
%K research process
%K research framework
%K researcher subjectivity
%K countertransference
%K concept hierarchy
%U http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/article/view/337/275