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Step 2: Methods for Identifying Research Studies
The review was undertaken primarily using the Auckland University of
Technology (AUT) library. Some 136 papers in total were located by utilizing
electronic databases, books and the inter-loan services. Colleagues in the field
also directed me to current magazines such as Scientific American Mind. The
database searching on PsychINFO included some journals listed in PEP
(Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing); a separate search of PEP also extended
the results that came up to include PEP articles not included within the
PsychINFO search. These PEP articles were important in widening the
relevance and definition of certain therapeutic interventions and features of the
transferential experience for therapist and client. My search went on to look at
countertransference and psychodynamic issues in attending to this theme of
deadness and aliveness in the anorexic person and began to reveal saturation
around certain key authors and themes such as psychic pain and the use of the
body to communicate.
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