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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
[Psychoanalysis: a research method based on clinical practice: contributions to nursing]
Teresa Cristina da Silva1, Débora Isane Ratner Kirschbaum
1Departamento de Enfermagem Aplicada da Escola de Enfermagem da UFMG, Minas Gerais, Brasil. teresac@ufmg.br
Abstract:
Nursing, in its different fields of practice, is essentially characterized as a clinical practice. In this context, psychoanalysis can make important contributions. This article discusses some basic psychoanalytical concepts and assumptions, proposes psychoanalysis as a research method, and stresses its contributions for nursing. Essential Freudian concepts are identified, as well as the path to be followed by the researcher. As a research method, psychoanalysis can be used as a framework for the studu of human behavior based on unconscious mental processes. In several knowledge areas.
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