A New Pluralistic Paradigm for Research: Diverse Methods for Researching Analytic and Other Groups [Paperback]

A New Pluralistic Paradigm for Research is a comprehensive resource that equips a diverse audience with essential research knowledge.?It is ideal for psychotherapists, researchers, students, supervisors, trainees, and seminar leaders. It serves as a guide for anyone interested in analytic groups and the methodologies that inform them.

Acquainted with Susanne Vosmers previous publications, I have?been impressed by her range and willingness to think new thoughts about the trade of psychotherapy and group analysis. She brings a wealth of insights from psychology and other disciplines to her work.

I am excited to read about her new book project and admire the ambition involved, to create a handbook of research for group analysis whilst noting that group analysis can itself constitute a useful mode of re-search. This is long overdue. Wide ranging scope it aims to cover many existing nodes of research but take it further, to integrate the contribution of non-Western, non-ethnocentric modes of knowledge. Perspectives from far Eastern philosophy and practice, and indigenous experience, for examples, are seldom included in psychotherapy literature let alone research, and are welcome (essential) guests to the table for further understanding.

I heartily recommend this book proposal and believe it will address some significant gaps in our present knowledge. I do not know of another book written in this spirit.

?-?Martin Weegmann,?Clinical Psychologist, Group Analyst and writer

In her groundbreaking book, Susanne Vosmer initiates a truly pluralistic discussion on research in Analytic and other forms of Group Psychotherapy. She constructs an alternative yet complementary framework to evidence-based research, going beyond Eurocentric and American-centered models of knowledge and research practice. Vosmer writes about researcl3%