ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a case study, which illustrates a strategy for introducing research activity into a clinically oriented staff group working with psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The case study presented in the chapter is based on an analysis of the work carried out in a clinical centre, where the two main tasks had for a long time been psychoanalytic psychotherapeutic treatment and clinically oriented training programmes. Research on child psychotherapy has shown that psychoanalytic psychotherapy is effective for children with a wide range of psychological disorders. In relation to clinical work and psychoanalytic psychotherapy with children, the specific culture is manifest by the way clinicians interact with the children and their parents and how they respond to the activities of the patients, both individually and collectively. Clinicians engaged in psychoanalytic psychotherapy are used to working with very complex phenomena and it takes time before they realize that this may not be the best approach within a research context.
