Help a Psychoanalyst out

Odysseus

I have decided to do another Masters. My MA in Psychoanalysis was a Research Masters, that involved exploring the concept of dual diagnosis looking at the different between the DSM and the ICD-10 against psychoanalytic psychodiagnostics. It did not involve quantitative and qualitative and design methods etc.

I have been accepted on to the MSc in Bereavement Studies run by the Royal College of Surgeons and the Irish Hospice Foundation. As it is a MSc there are modules on Research- Methods and Appraisal, an Advanced Research Methods module that looks at research design, data collection and analysis.


I'm a bit out of my area here, I may exit after one year with just the Post Gard Diploma as there are other areas that I want to study before I tackle the PhD. However, even in the other areas I will need to covber this.

So my question is can anyone suggest any books to help get me started on it. The research that CBT therapists use to explain their evidence base is not new to me, I have of course read various papers over the years, but I did find this area difficult when I did a CBT programme a few years ago. However, I did not focus too much on it, so any suggestions on some books that would help get me started in the above areas would be great.

JuliusCaesar

Ladislav Timulak wrote a very accessible intro to Research - can't remember what it's called. He's quite critical of CBT research

Cinful

This psychology research methods handbook has a good piece on additive (constructive) comparison design and CBT: http://books.google.com/books?id=MnOyiy5dtSsC&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&dq=CBT+research+methods&source=bl&ots=fGgsfky4QB&sig=eK8Dpmapqk9Z7lpCJY7L2g2x0do&hl=en&ei=jE_4S72AKo7YM47PlZsF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=CBT%20research%20methods&f=false

One of the best ways I become familiar with the various research methods that apply to CBT is to read the methods sections of articles published in peer reviewed journals like Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or ABCT's The Behavior Therapist. Beats boring, generic textbooks.

hotspur

The one Cinful linked looks decent. The basic texts that I used when first learning were:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Statistical-Tests-Psychology-Guides/dp/0335203779
http://books.google.ie/books?id=e6LdiM9dDUIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=learning+to+use+statistical+tests+in+psychology&source=bl&ots=Lw8Y7a8dnz&sig=csoMl8-_GH8FlIexpQjzyq1ekbc&hl=en&ei=rlX4S4iIIYru0gSPvonqBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0155078976/llpoh-20

http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Behavioral-Statistics-Richard-Runyon/dp/0072286415

I don't know how well they hold up now, finding out what the 1st year methodology textbooks are in psychology courses would probably be best.

Mind you a lot of psychology research methods and statistics stuff is available online these days:
http://methods.fullerton.edu/framesindex.html
http://www.psychology.org/links/Resources/Statistics/

This is Timulak's book, he's the guy who runs the counselling psychology programme in Trinity:
http://books.google.ie/books?id=tYO8MAqy1MMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ladislav+Timulak&source=bl&ots=RJe2yk6BND&sig=cUu6_ht_OR6i15A-NukzbjpBxAk&hl=en&ei=JVr4S_STG6j00gSAzZTqBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false

I have to admit there's a part of me which engages in a little bit of schadenfreude when a psychoanalyst comes to study statistics But sure you'll be doing multinominal logistic regression analysis on SPSS in no time, don't sweat it.

Best of luck with the Msc. Btw is Collin Murray Parkes's work on bereavement still well regarded? I remember thinking highly of it many a moon ago.

edit: btw this site is a fantastic site that regularly deconstructs research in an intelligent and rigorous manner:
http://www.psychotherapybrownbag.com/

Odysseus

Cheers guy’s thanks for the links. I have picked up bits and pieces over the years but never study it as such. Hotspur I'm not familiar with that author but I'll check it out. I went with this programme as I want to develop the paper I wrote earlier this year about depression and abstinence based on Freud's Mourning and Melancholia. The fee was a factor too 3,500 for the first year and 4,000 for the second. I recently checked out my MA it's 7,500 a year:eek: It was 1,700 and 1,900 punts when I done it.

Whereas there is little if any psychoanalysis on the programme, I would like to be able to refer to other modalities on the topic at a later stage. Also the topic itself is very relevant to my clinical work

Odysseus

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Ladislav Timulak wrote a very accessible intro to Research - can't remember what it's called. He's quite critical of CBT research

Sorry, JC I thanked the other and not your, I didn't notice it when I read the replies. Cheers I goggle the name and I should come up with something.