Ethnography is a process yielding a particular kind of knowledge. From the psychoanalytic
perspective this bears on the question: how may individual lives which report their own …

This paper is an exploration of the meaning of" interpretation" as an analytic concept in
clinical ethnography. The practical engagement of anthropologists in clinical activities and …

To social anthropologists an affinity with psychotherapy lies in the view that this discipline is
a social science. Increasingly, social anthropologists offer comments and analyse their own …

Isaiah Berlin, describing the ideas of the eighteenth-century philosopher, Giambattista Vico,
has written,... whatever the splendours of the exact sciences, there was a sense in which we …

Ethnography is an orientation to research which emphasises detailed protracted observation
of people in naturally occurring settings, a close involvement of the researcher with those …

Ethnographic interviewing is a powerful qualitative approach that allows the researcher to
arrive at rich insights about subjectivity and psychological phenomena through the …

The subjects of social work practice–clients, communities, families, groups, and
organizations–exist in real-time and in open systems where the social worker is faced with …

Psychoanalysis has much to gain by incorporating ethnographic methods into its repertoire.
Recent works in ethnographic psychoanalysis demonstrate how psychoanalysis stands to …

Yet what therapists and ethnographers do is remarkably alike. Both involve participant
observation. At least, ethnography straightforwardly involves the attempt to participate, to the …

This collection of essays is about psychoanalytic ethnography. Its concern is the psychic
depths of human cultural life-worlds as explored through psycho analytic practice and/or the …