Forming Ideal Types by Understanding: The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Suicidal Men
Keywords:
suicide, suicidal men, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, ideal types
Abstract
This paper discusses the application of a qualitative methodology—forming ideal types by understanding—to the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of suicidal men. The paper focuses on a particular phase of the methodology: the validation through external expert replication. Data of cases from psychoanalytic treatment, analysed by the originating group in Germany, is analysed by a group in London, UK, which formed to undertake the task of blind comparison. We describe the contribution of this method in the field of psychoanalytic research, the method developed for generating data and the processes through which data are analysed. We demonstrate the comparative findings from the first (German) and second (UK) analyses and explore the meanings of the similarities and differences. The paper concludes with an appraisal of the strengths and limitations (in terms) of moderate levels of generalisation of results from this method for research in the field of qualitative psychotherapy research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1002120Downloads
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Published
2010-04-27
How to Cite
Lindner, R., & Briggs, S. (2010). Forming Ideal Types by Understanding: The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Suicidal Men. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-11.2.1278
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Copyright (c) 2010 Reinhard Lindner, Stephen Briggs

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