Dear All
For people interested in using biographical methods
for training purposes (and who can also speak German) here is a good website: [log in to unmask].
Another you can find via Google with 'Gesundheitsfoerdernde Praxen'. Both are
informed by Fritz Schuetze's research on diabetes and way of presenting cases to
policy makers and medics to improve practice. The second has a specific
psychodynamic persective and focuses on doctor-patient relationships.
I came across these at the German Biographical
Section conference in Goettingen recently. There were excellent workshops
analysing video clips (a few seconds for each segment) of real doctor-patient
interactions, using similar hypothesising and follow-hypothesising procedures as
for narrative text, focusing on each protagonist at a time, and then thinking
about the whole relationship. Pretty 'wild' and seemingly far-fetched hypotheses
actually got all the main research findings of a completed project in an hour
long session! Just as we often find in micro-analysis.
The training video Chris Curran and I developed
from our research on homelessness was published by Pavilion earlier this year -
flyer attached. I also have pdf copies of my article in Qualitative Social Work
18:3 on 'Laura' from that research - 'Emotional retreat and social exclusion:
towards biographical methods in professional training'. Let me know if you would
like one.
Happy holidays!
Prue.
