Applying the ‘Experience-Near’ Principle To Research: Psychoanalytically Informed MethodsFootnote1

¹ This article is based on a talk given at the second meeting, on 12 June 2007, of the ESRC seminar series entitled ‘Practitioner Research and Practice-near Methods’. The topic was the use of the infant observation method and its application and potential for social work. The talk was originally entitled ‘The potential of the observation method’.

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