Research and Therapy
Generating Meaning and Feeling Gaps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385703 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liz Bondi (The University of Edinburgh, UK) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-19 |
| Publication date | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800412462978 |
| OpenAlex | W2053986011 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 40 |
The author argues that qualitative research and psychotherapy are both projects of making meaning. Qualitative research may provide therapeutic opportunities for participants that sometimes generate confusion about appropriate boundaries, but psychotherapy does not have a monopoly on the therapeutic. The meanings (or stories) that qualitative research and psychotherapy generate circulate differently, qualitative research entering the public domain more overtly, while psychotherapeutic meanings circulate primarily through the way lives are lived. Qualitative research does not generally purport to produce faithful representations, but sometimes the gap between personal experience and its narration can be troubling, especially in the case of traumatic experience. Drawing on the psychoanalytic distinction between two-person and three-person relating and its link to symbolization, the author elaborates the concept of the third position, which she uses to illuminate this gap between the flow of experience and our narrations of experience. The author shows how the third position is rooted in loss and how loss is therefore intrinsic to our capacity for curiosity and reflection on our lives
Aesthetics · Curiosity · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Meaning-making · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology · Social Science and Policy Research
The teller-focused interview
Understanding feelings
Participatory research with women in the perinatal period
A dialogical narrative approach to transitions and change in young women’s lives after domestic abuse in childhood
Between disconcertment and joy
Unbound emotional geographies of youth transitions
You look like them”
Collective trauma? Isolating and commoning gender-based violence
Geotrauma
The signature of the disaster
Demonic possession
Where can I get free? Everyday bordering, everyday incarceration
The emotional challenges of conducting in‐depth research into significant health issues in health geography
Historical geography I
Everyday terrorism
Intimate war
Locating the couch
Anxiety and phantasy in the field
Between Christianity and secularity
I Look at You and See You Looking at Me
Feeling insecure
Insecure bodies/selves
Seismologies of emotion
Research relationships and responsibilities
Feeling our way
What, Suicide Runs in Families? Writing-As-Inquiry to Examine Our 'Not Knowing' About Intergenerational Suicide
No news today
Sophie's story
Reflexivities as Affective Ways of Relating That Produce
Critical issues in qualitative research methods
The Ethnographic Self
‘Doing Rapport’ and the Ethics of ‘Faking Friendship’
The Wounded Storyteller
The Origins of Happiness
Prenatal Care Use Among Women of Low Income
Undertaking Sensitive Research in the Health and Social Sciences
The Active Interview
Using a model of group psychotherapy to support social research on sensitive topics
Inviting intimacy
When Research Interviews are More Therapeutic Than Therapy Interviews
Counselling in rural Scotland
III. Researching Childhood Sexual Abuse
Is counselling a feminist practice
Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Triangular Space
On holding and containing, being and dreaming
Consequences of pragmatism
Collecting Sensitive Data
Managing Shame and Stigma
Blurring Boundaries in Qualitative Health Research on Sensitive Topics
A Situated Practice for (Re)Situating Selves
Unlocking the cage door
Research Notes
Doing sensitive research
Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork
Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Research
The Social Construction of Validity
Healing Plots
Where the Wild Dreams Are
Ethical Research in Reflexive Relationships
Telling Secrets, Revealing Lives
Friendship as Method
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |