Narrating a Psychoanalytic Case Study
- 1 January 1996
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
The psychoanalytic case study is a special form of narrating lives. It is a narrative of a dialogue in which one person, the analysand, tells his or her life story, which is elaborated by the listener, the analyst, “along psychoanalytic lines” (Schafer, 1983, p. 219). This narrative, the case study, is the most compelling means of documenting clinical findings, which form the prime ground to develop and document psychoanalytic concepts and theory. But as numerous analysts have indicated, writing a case study exposes the writer—the analyst—to several conflicting forces. Foremost is the conflict between the recognition that detailed clinical material is essential for the furthering of clinical knowledge and the recognition that publishing the material ...Keywords
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