Overview
Explores the role of empathy in clinical understanding
Sheds light on how to conduct research on psychodynamic matters in a scientifically credible way
Utilizes survey research, content analysis and narrative analysis
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“This book is conceived as a guidebook and toolbox, a ‘how-to’ manual for inquiries into the psychodynamics of world politics. Offering small and easily accessible subchapters, Meyers outlines different methodological approaches to integrating social scientific and psychoanalytic viewpoints with the aim of shedding light on non-rational and bizarre aspects of world politics.” (Steffen Krüger, American Imago, Vol. 74 (2), 2017)
“Meyers has produced a book about research methodologies that is quite readable and thoroughly enjoyable. … Meyers’ style and content have contributed to a book that is both comprehensible and relevant to understanding internal mental life and current world events. … recommend to anyone who prefers to ask questions a la the method of inquiry over the method of authority in which the king, organized religion, or the government dictate what constitutes the truth.” (Burton Norman Seitler, Clio’s Psyche, Vol. 22 (3), December, 2015)
“Meyers is a scholar who thinks deeply, practically, and creatively, a scholar with far-ranging interests, an astute observer of social, political, and cultural life. Throughout, this book is a lively read. It includes fascinating narratives on methods, constructs, and cases, and it references to a vast literature. Its descriptions of methods are clear and helpful. Meyers seamlessly reaches across subdisciplinary boundaries in psychology, speaking to readers with interests in personality, clinical, social, critical, political, cultural, and community psychology. Throughout the book he combines traditional and emergent methods as well as quantitative and qualitative approaches with rigor and creativity to study what isn’t said and what lies behind contradictions. By pairing world events and psychological dynamics and describing how they can be studied together, Meyers offers us a gift.” (Susan Opotow, Professor, City University of New York, USA)
“A stunning and important contribution to an exploration of how our world turns … . There are so many ways that the author explores interrelationships among fields, whether he is looking at our political life, the arts, the relationship of politics, art, and science, or the way corporate America behaves, that one begins to appreciate the ways in which the unconscious drives all of our endeavors…important for our times. Although its aim is to “explain methods” by which the world’s problems may be investigated, combining “psychodynamic inquiry with social scientific procedures,” the book does more than that. It offers a sense of urgency about our survival (climate change, for example or corporate greed) and also suggests some paths to leading our lives with the empathy for others that may help save us.” (Katherine Burkman, Professor Emeritus of English, Ohio State University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Science Methods for Psychodynamic Inquiry
Book Subtitle: The Unconscious on the World Scene
Authors: William R. Meyers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137524904
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52489-8Published: 30 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70698-3Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52490-4Published: 06 February 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 253
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Psychology Research, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Psychotherapy and Counseling