Researcher and Therapist in the Same Person - a Feasible Combination? Review of Steinar Lorentzen’s Doctoral Thesis: ‘Long-term Analytic Group Psychotherapy with Outpatients: Evaluation of Process and Change’

Abstract

In this article, the authors discuss some of the dilemmas inherent in the combined role of being both clinician and researcher, and some central methodological problems connected to research on long-term psychotherapy. The thesis represents an important contribution to the field, which is in serious need of empirical research on long-term group-analytic psychotherapy. Lorentzen’s work has in an exemplary way demonstrated that it is possible to combine the roles of clinician and researcher.