Researching beneath the surface : psycho-social research methods in practice / edited by Simon Clarke and Paul Hoggett.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Researching beneath the surface: a psycho-social approach to research practice and method / Simon Clarke and Paul Hoggett -- Part I. Ways of knowing -- 2. Experiencing knowledge: the vicissitudes of a research journey / Harlan Alexandrov -- 3. How to live and learn: learning, duration, and the virtual / Lita Crociani-Windland -- 4. When words are not enough / Julian Manley -- Part II. The dynamics of the research encounter -- 5. Charting the clear waters and the murky depths / Phoebe Beedell -- 6. Fear - and psycho-social interviewing / Rosie Gilmour -- 7. The use of self as a research tool / Sue Jervis -- Part III. Methods of inquiry and analysis -- 8. Seeing - believing, dreaming - thinking: some methodological mapping of viewpoints / Lindsey Nicholls -- 9. Autobiography as a psycho-social research method / Rumen Petrov -- 10. Managing self in role: using multiple methodologies to explore self construction and self governance / Linda Watts -- 11. Analysing discourse psycho-socially / Linda Boydell.

"This book offers an overview of the rapidly expanding field of Psycho-Social research. Drawing on aspects of discourse psychology, continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings of the emotions, psycho-social studies has emerged as an embryonic new paradigm in the human sciences. Psycho-social studies uses psychoanalytic concepts and principles to illuminate core issues within the social sciences. The present volume contributes to the development of the new research methodologies in a number of ways. It is written largely from the point of view of practitioners who are also researchers. Although contributors draw largely upon object-relations traditions in psychoanalysis, other influences are also present, particularly from continental philosophy and the sociology of the emotions. It develops an approach to epistemology - how we know what we know, which is strongly informed by a living approach to psychoanalysis, not just as a theory but as a way of being in the world - that is as a stance. It examines, in great depth and from a number of perspectives, the complex psycho-social dynamics that characterise the research encounter. And finally, it demonstrates a number of specific methodologies at work and the authors learning from this experience."--Publisher's website.

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