Clinical and Observational Psychoanalytic Research

Taylor & Francis

There are few topics in psychoanalysis today more controversial than the place of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. This is a collection of papers presented at a conference held in London - with additional material - exploring the work of the principal discussants, Andre Green and Daniel Stern. > Few topics elicit greater controversy within psychoanalysis today than the role of research in justifying or expanding upon analytic theory. The text collects papers from a London conference, along with additional material, to explore the work of discussants Daniel Stern and Andre Green. Stern, whose work and psychoanalysis and infant observation is world-renowned, and Green, the French psychoanalyst whose trenchant views on the limitations of research are equally well known, each focus on the issue of infant research and its long history within the psychoanalytic movement.Additional discussions by three prominent British psychoanalysts, Anne Alvarez, Irma Brenman n