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Case study research Lony Schiltz CRP-Santé, Luxembourg. Introduction. Different conceptions of case study research. Objectivism and constructivism Curing in the traditional meaning Healing as an objective of the psychotherapeutic process Benefit for the clinician. Table 1 : The ABA design.
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Different conceptions of case study research • Objectivism and constructivism • Curing in the traditional meaning • Healing as an objective of the psychotherapeutic process • Benefit for the clinician Table 1 : The ABA design
Problems linked to case study in clinical research Reduction of the unique to an example • Classification • Diagnostic labels • Confusion between the symptomatic and the structural level • Diagnostic categories overlapping or changing during the therapeutic process and / or developmental stages • Personal body- worlds of clients • Interactions of body and psyche in the patient himself
Problems linked to case study in clinical research Patterns of transformation • Ups and downs • Forwards and backwards • Repetition and variation • Symmetry and inversion • Paradox • Mirroring
The myth of causal interference The polysemic nature of the concept of cause • The time-sequence • The teleological cause • The hidden cause The assessment of therapeutic success The quest of meaning Alternation of “loose “ and “tight” thinking
The problem of generalization Table 2 : Levels of interference • Statistical generalization • Analytical generalization • Definition of the population and the sample