Thinking in Cases

by John Forrester and John Forrester

Book Overview

What exactly is involved in using particular case histories to think systematically about social, psychological and historical processes? Can one move from a textured particularity, like that in Freud?s famous cases, to a level of reliable generality? In this book, Forrester teases out the meanings of the psychoanalytic case, how to characterize it and account for it as a particular kind of writing. In so doing, he moves from psychoanalysis to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509508627
• ISBN13: 9781509508624
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"