Lisa Saville Young

I am a qualitative mental health researcher interested in 1) care work in relationships including family relationships and therapeutic relationships; and in 2) employing psychoanalytic methods and frameworks in qualitative research. I have been involved in research on how mothers in socioeconomically disadvantaged contexts experience providing care to their infants; how siblings experience providing care to their mentally ill brother/sister; how brothers experience their relationship and its relevance to their construction of masculinity. Most of my published work employs a psychoanalytic framework to conduct qualitative research and investigates experiences from both a social and psychological perspective (see the field of Psychosocial Studies). I am increasingly interested in drawing on mentalization theory as a psychoanalytic framework to analyse interview talk and/or therapy transcripts from a psychosocial perspective. I am also interested in practice-based qualitative research that focuses on evaluating the processes of mental health interventions including mentalization based therapy with children.