Ethics and Process in the Narrative Study of Lives

Abstract

Introduction - Ruthellen Josselson PART ONE: NARRATIVE AND HUMAN FEELING Some Reflections about Narrative Research and Hurt and Harm - David Bakan Ethical Issues in Biographical Interviews and Analysis - Dan Bar-On Expert Witness - Terri Apter Who Controls the Psychologist's Narrative Personal Vulnerability and Interpretive Authority - Susan Chase On Writing Other People's Lives - Ruthellen Josselson Self-Analytic Reflections of a Narrative Researcher Narrating a Psychoanalytic Case Study - Pirkko Graves Who Benefits from an Examined Life? Correlates of Influence Attribted to Participation in a Longitudinal Study - Gail Agronick and Ravenna Helson PART TWO: WHAT WE THINK WE'RE DOING Interpreting Life Stories - Richard Ochberg Telling from Behind Her Hand - Gwyndolyn Etter-Lewis African American Women and the Process of Documenting Concealed Lives Ethics and Understanding through Interrelationships - Melvin Miller I Am Thou in Dialogue PART THREE: AFTERMATHS The Resurrection of Rabbi Ya'acov Wazana - Yoram Bilu The Dialectics of Life, Story, and After Life Some Unforeseen Outcomes of Conducting Narrative Research with People of One's Own Culture - Amia Lieblich PART FOUR: FROM THE THRESHOLD A Historian's Perspective on Interviewing - Scott Webster Snakes in the Swamp - June Price Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research The Role of the Anthropologist and the Kumina Queen - Emanuela Guano Two Voices in an Ethnographic Interview A Woman Studies War - Edna Lomsky-Feder Stranger in a Man's World PART FIVE: COMMON GROUND Making the Whole-Method and Ethics in Mainstream and Narrative Psychology - George Rosenwald Ethics and Narrative - Guy Widdershoven