Kalina Stamenova, PhD, FHEA, is a research fellow and a lecturer at the University of Essex. Her research interests involve psychoanalytic research methods, psychoanalysis and education, and psychoanalysis and organisations.R. D. Hinshelwood is a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has always had a part-time commitment to the public service (NHS and universities) and to teaching psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He has written on Kleinian psychoanalysis and on the application of psychoanalysis to social science and political themes. He has taken an interest in and published on the problems of making evidenced comparisons between different schools of psychoanalysis.

"This volume is to be welcomed as an innovative contribution to psychoanalytic research premised on the unconscious and including authors with thorough knowledge of psychoanalysis. Contributions reflect clinical psychoanalytic traditions, while being able to apply these to research, examine foundations and engage with wider psychosocial research debate." --Wendy Hollway, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, UK

• Notes on AuthorsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction: Kalina Stamenova and R.D. HinshelwoodPART ONE: AN OVERVIEW OF QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIESChapter One: A Psychoanalytic View of Qualitative Methodology: Observing the Elemental Psychic World in Social Processes by Karl FiglioPART TWO –PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA COLLECTIONPART TWO: PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA COLLECTIONINTERVIEWINGChapter Two: The socioanalytic interview by Susan LongChapter Three: Psychoanalytic perspectives on the qualitative research interview by Nick Midgley and Joshua HolmesChapter Four: Psycho-societal Interpretation of the Unconscious Dimensions in Everyday Life by Henning Salling Olesen and Thomas LeithäuserChapter Five: Using psychoanalytic research interview as an experimental ‘laboratory’ by Simona ReghintovschiOBSERVATIONSChapter Six: Psychoanalytic observation – the mind as research instrument by Wilhelm SkogstadChapter Seven: The contribution of psychoanalytically informed observation methodologies in nursery organisations by Peter ElferPART THREE: PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA HANDLING AND DATA ANALYSISVISUAL METHODSChapter Eight: Social Photo-Matrix and Social Dream-Drawing by Rose Redding Mersky & Burkard SieversOPERATIONALISATIONChapter Nine: There goes a duck: Operationalising abductive inferences by Gillian Walker and R.D. HinshelwoodChapter Ten: Comparative analysis of overlapping psychoanalytic concepts using operationalisation by Kalina StamenovaNARRATIVE ANALYSISChapter Eleven: Psychoanalysis in narrative research by Lisa Saville Young & Stephen FroshChapter Twelve: Researching Dated, Situated Subjectivities by Biographic-Narrative Interview: psychoanalysis, the psychosocietal unconscious, and BNIM interpretation by Tom WengrafPSYCHO-SOCIETAL ETHNOGRAPHYChapter Thirteen: Psychoanalytic ethnography by Linda Lundgaard AndersenConclusion: R.D. Hinshelwood and Kalina StamenovaIndex

Kalina Stamenova, PhD, FHEA, is a research fellow and a lecturer at the University of Essex. Her research interests involve psychoanalytic research methods, psychoanalysis and education, and psychoanalysis and organisations.R. D. Hinshelwood is a British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has always had a part-time commitment to the public service (NHS and universities) and to teaching psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He has written on Kleinian psychoanalysis and on the application of psychoanalysis to social science and political themes. He has taken an interest in and published on the problems of making evidenced comparisons between different schools of psychoanalysis.

"This volume is to be welcomed as an innovative contribution to psychoanalytic research premised on the unconscious and including authors with thorough knowledge of psychoanalysis. Contributions reflect clinical psychoanalytic traditions, while being able to apply these to research, examine foundations and engage with wider psychosocial research debate." --Wendy Hollway, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, UK

• Notes on AuthorsAcknowledgementsForewordIntroduction: Kalina Stamenova and R.D. HinshelwoodPART ONE: AN OVERVIEW OF QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIESChapter One: A Psychoanalytic View of Qualitative Methodology: Observing the Elemental Psychic World in Social Processes by Karl FiglioPART TWO –PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA COLLECTIONPART TWO: PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA COLLECTIONINTERVIEWINGChapter Two: The socioanalytic interview by Susan LongChapter Three: Psychoanalytic perspectives on the qualitative research interview by Nick Midgley and Joshua HolmesChapter Four: Psycho-societal Interpretation of the Unconscious Dimensions in Everyday Life by Henning Salling Olesen and Thomas LeithäuserChapter Five: Using psychoanalytic research interview as an experimental ‘laboratory’ by Simona ReghintovschiOBSERVATIONSChapter Six: Psychoanalytic observation – the mind as research instrument by Wilhelm SkogstadChapter Seven: The contribution of psychoanalytically informed observation methodologies in nursery organisations by Peter ElferPART THREE: PSYCHOANALYTIC METHODS IN DATA HANDLING AND DATA ANALYSISVISUAL METHODSChapter Eight: Social Photo-Matrix and Social Dream-Drawing by Rose Redding Mersky & Burkard SieversOPERATIONALISATIONChapter Nine: There goes a duck: Operationalising abductive inferences by Gillian Walker and R.D. HinshelwoodChapter Ten: Comparative analysis of overlapping psychoanalytic concepts using operationalisation by Kalina StamenovaNARRATIVE ANALYSISChapter Eleven: Psychoanalysis in narrative research by Lisa Saville Young & Stephen FroshChapter Twelve: Researching Dated, Situated Subjectivities by Biographic-Narrative Interview: psychoanalysis, the psychosocietal unconscious, and BNIM interpretation by Tom WengrafPSYCHO-SOCIETAL ETHNOGRAPHYChapter Thirteen: Psychoanalytic ethnography by Linda Lundgaard AndersenConclusion: R.D. Hinshelwood and Kalina StamenovaIndex