Ethics and Process in the Narrative Study of Lives

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

"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." -- Transcultural Psychiatry