COVER -- CONTENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE Preliminary methodological reflections -- An example of conceptual reflections in Freud -- Empirical and conceptual -- How do theories change? -- CHAPTER TWO About the Freudian "Junktim" -- The "junktim "or the "conjunction between cure and research" -- Psychoanalytic research activities -- Conceptual research in particular -- CHAPTER THREE Research with and without numbers -- Countertransference-a fictitious example -- A current example: the "measuring" of transference -- Some critical comments from the point of viewof conceptual research -- CHAPTER FOUR Conceptual research in the Hampstead Index Project -- The psychoanalytic context -- The Hampstead Index Project -- Some thoughts on the research methods -- CHAPTER FIVE Conceptual research in the Trauma Project -- The psychoanalytic context -- The Trauma Project -- Methods of investigation -- A summary of the results -- A short comment on current developments -- CHAPTER SIX Concluding methodological reflections -- Why should methodological attentionbe paid to concepts? -- Why do we need autonomous conceptualresearch projects? -- How could existing approaches be improved? -- Conceptual research in the contextof methodological controversies -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.