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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE. A THEMATIC NARRATIVE ANALYSIS
The interview texts, eleven in total, were analysed through a form of thematic analysis that
utilizes an interpretation of meaning through the narrative context. 391 This offered
revealing insights into the little researched world of a significant group of psychoanalysts in
GB and the USA, as they live and work in the early Twenty-First Century in relation to
religion, spirituality and the sacred. Immersion and re-immersion in the interview texts
elicited the following key terms that were read and re-read in their narrative context. The
following terms form overarching themes that conveyed meaning across the range of the
interviews and emerged out of the textual narratives. This chapter therefore expounds:
Psychoanalysis and Freud; Key Psychoanalytic Thinkers; Contemporary Psychoanalysis;
Contemporary Psychoanalysts; Religion; Spirituality; Buddhism; Mystical/O; and Love.
These are examined in detail using the voices of the participants to reveal clusters of
meaning (identified by sub-headings).
391 The names of the eleven analysts participating in this research selected for transcription and analysis are
detailed in the table below and their initials are used throughout the text. The transcripts of the interviews are
contained in a CD.
INITITALS NAME INITIALS NAME
DB David Black AL Alessandra Lemma
JB Jessica Benjamin AN Anonymous
JJ James Jones AP Adam Phillips
JR Jeffrey Rubin JG Jim Grotstein
AMR Ana-Maria Rizzuto JBR Joe Bobrow
PM Phil Mollon
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