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Social Dream-Drawing is a socioanalytic praxis conceived, developed and researched by myself as a psycho-social action researcher. Although it is built upon related praxes, such as Social Dreaming, Organisational Role Analysis and the Social Photo-Matrix, its unique contribution is the work with drawings of dreams done by participants, relating to...
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... it's a present to hear these other associations and other approaches and also the other symbolic offers…. I was not forced to pick up any opinion which was offered or any interpretation which was given by the others (G3, Event 19). ...
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... Table 4: A mother duck and her 5 ducklings This was for us also data that the theme was very difficult to relate to. Social Dream-Drawing (SDD) Social Dream-Drawing was developed over a period of seven years by Rose Redding Mersky (2013Mersky ( , 2017 and subsequently researched from a Psycho-Social perspective (Clarke & Hoggett 2009). Research has demonstrated that participation in SDD can be a valuable individual professional learning experience, as well as an important resource for those going through major transitions in their working and personal lives (Mersky 2017). ...
... Social Dream-Drawing (SDD) Social Dream-Drawing was developed over a period of seven years by Rose Redding Mersky (2013Mersky ( , 2017 and subsequently researched from a Psycho-Social perspective (Clarke & Hoggett 2009). Research has demonstrated that participation in SDD can be a valuable individual professional learning experience, as well as an important resource for those going through major transitions in their working and personal lives (Mersky 2017). What particularly distinguishes SDD from Social Dreaming and the Social Photo-Matrix is the intensive associative work done with the dream drawings of individual participants. ...
The Social Photo-Matrix (SPM) and Social Dream-Drawing (SDD) are two action research methods designed to access the unconscious thinking in groups and organizations and to make it available for learning. They both make use of the creations of participants (photographs and drawings of dreams) as raw material. In working with these materials, participants and hosts offer free associations and amplifications to make available unconscious thoughts, which are reflected upon in a subsequent session. Rooted in Social Dreaming, which was developed in the 1980’s by Gordon Lawrence (1998), these two methods are part of a larger group of socioanalytic approaches, many of which are explored in this book. This chapter begins by outlining the general theoretical underpinnings of these two praxes followed by a more extensive explanation of the theoretical roots characteristic of each one. An example of a stand-alone workshop of each is offered as well. We then describe two cases where their use led to important insights in two very different organizations, i.e. a juvenile prison and a university. We close the chapter with a discussion of issues relating to their use as academic research methodologies and offer our recommendations for such use.
The psychoanalytic unconscious is a slippery set of
phenomena to pin down. There is not an accepted standard
form of research, outside of the clinical practice of
psychoanalysis. In this book a number of non-clinical
methods for collecting data and analysing it are described.
It represents the current situation on the way to an
established methodology.
The book provides a survey of methods in contemporary
use and development. As well as the introductory survey,
chapters have been written by researchers who have
pioneered recent and effective methods and have extensive
experience of those methods. It will serve as a gallery of
illustrations from which to make the appropriate choice for
a future research project.
Methods of Research into the Unconscious: Applying
Psychoanalytic Ideas to Social Science will be of great use for
those aiming to start projects in the general area of
psychoanalytic studies and for those in the human/social
sciences who wish to include the unconscious as well as
conscious functioning of their subjects.
