All Outputs (3)

Voyages around mothers: departures and returns (2022)
Journal Article
Cummins, A. M. (2022). Voyages around mothers: departures and returns. Journal of Psychosocial Studies, 15(2), 140-146. https://doi.org/10.1332/147867321X16575215381863

This piece is a personal response to the articles in this special issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. It identifies three themes that seem to unite the articles: children’s emotional labour; repair and generativity; and après-coup or Nachtr... Read More about Voyages around mothers: departures and returns.

The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender (2018)
Book Chapter
Crociani-Windland, L. (2018). The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender. In A. Cummins, & N. Williams (Eds.), Further Researching Beneath the Surface: Psycho-Social Research Methods in Practice. London: Routledge

This chapter tracks different ways of framing the use of subjectivity in psycho-social research, by offering different, yet convergent, ways of understanding its ontological basis. For this purpose, it tracks dualities in the work of Bergson and Bion... Read More about The researcher’s subjectivity as a research instrument - from intuition to surrender.

More Researching beneath the Surface Volume 2
Book
Williams, N., & Cummins, A. (2018). N. Williams, & A. Cummins (Eds.), More Researching beneath the Surface Volume 2. London: Karnac

It’s been almost a decade since the first volume of Researching Beneath the Surface was first published. The book reflected developments and innovations in psycho-social scholarship and research methods in the first decade of the twenty first century... Read More about More Researching beneath the Surface Volume 2.