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The Social Clinical Approach and Social Change. /La Clinique Du Social Et Le Changement Social
Through the analysis of a variety of action research practices in clinical sociology, like collective life stories, psychodynamic of work situations, autobiographic practices, we examine the possibilities and limits of those practices regarding social change issues. Are then briefly presented some researches in psychodynamic of work situations, workers in an aging and dependant persons health center, personal ofa jail; researches using collective life stories in community groups; training experiences using the family novel and social trajectories approach. The central focus is the analysis of the consciousness raising process, personal and collective, as a result of these experiences, and the necessity to take into account structural or institutional factors facilitating change. Then there is need for and epistemological thinking about knowledge exchange between researchers and their partners and the central role of critical thinking in those experiences.