Ethics and Process in the Narrative Study of Lives

Edited by:

Ruthellen Josselson - Towson State University, USA

Volume: 4

Series:
The Narrative Study of Lives series

Other Titles in:
Qualitative Research (General)

May 1996 | 312 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

First-hand accounts of the ideological, moral, emotional and practical complexities that surround the doing of narrative research are offered in this volume.

Exploring such issues as: whether work that risks exposing sensitive aspects of peoples' lives can ever be fully ethical; what effect being written about has on people; the line between narrative research and psychotherapy; and the after-effects of this research on the researcher, the contributions reveal the struggles and anxieties that narrative researchers face.

Ruthellen Josselson

Introduction

PART ONE: NARRATIVE AND HUMAN FEELING

David Bakan

Some Reflections about Narrative Research and Hurt and Harm

Dan Bar-On

Ethical Issues in Biographical Interviews and Analysis

Terri Apter

Expert Witness

Who Controls the Psychologist's Narrative

Susan Chase

Personal Vulnerability and Interpretive Authority

Ruthellen Josselson

On Writing Other People's Lives

Self-Analytic Reflections of a Narrative Researcher

Pirkko Graves

Narrating a Psychoanalytic Case Study

Gail Agronick and Ravenna Helson

Who Benefits from an Examined Life? Correlates of Influence Attribted to Participation in a Longitudinal Study

PART TWO: WHAT WE THINK WE'RE DOING

Richard Ochberg

Interpreting Life Stories

Gwyndolyn Etter-Lewis

Telling from Behind Her Hand

African American Women and the Process of Documenting Concealed Lives

Melvin Miller

Ethics and Understanding through Interrelationships

I Am Thou in Dialogue

PART THREE: AFTERMATHS

Yoram Bilu

The Resurrection of Rabbi Ya'acov Wazana

The Dialectics of Life, Story, and After Life

Amia Lieblich

Some Unforeseen Outcomes of Conducting Narrative Research with People of One's Own Culture

PART FOUR: FROM THE THRESHOLD

Scott Webster

A Historian's Perspective on Interviewing

June Price

Snakes in the Swamp

Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research

Emanuela Guano

The Role of the Anthropologist and the Kumina Queen

Two Voices in an Ethnographic Interview

Edna Lomsky-Feder

A Woman Studies War

Stranger in a Man's World

PART FIVE: COMMON GROUND

George Rosenwald

Making the Whole-Method and Ethics in Mainstream and Narrative Psychology

Guy Widdershoven

Ethics and Narrative

"This well-balanced collection of essays offers deeply provocative, honest and open analyses of a wide range of ethical problems within a field which continues to strive toward acceptance and recognition as a research tradition. It should provide useful and insightful reading as well as practical guidance for educators, practitioners and researchers interested in the challenge of telling stories of human experience with the tools of integrity and self-reflection."

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