The finest-meshed sociological net cannot give us a pure specimen of class, any more than
it can give us one of deference or of love. The relationship must always be embedded in real …

Reflective practice has moved from the margins to the mainstream of professional education.
However, in this process, its radical potential has been subsumed by individualistic, rather …

The adoption of countertransference, an idea drawn from psychoanalytic theory, by
qualitative researchers is examined. It is argued that its definition in the qualitative research …

This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the
brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories …

When conducting interviews about sensitive subject matter such as family life, powerful
emotions may arise. The kinds of unexpected distress that can surface in interviews …

This book was conceived following the research done by Kalina Stamenova in the course of
a PhD at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS; now the Department of Psychosocial …

The challenges of the use of theory in history is analysed and interrogated in significant and
exciting ways in this work. In drawing on the insights of leading scholars, this indispensable …

Background Free association is a core concept of the free association narrative interview
method, an approach that is well-known among researchers in the UK who are interested in …

Biographies, or written accounts of lives constructed by an author other than the
biographical subject, were some of the earliest histories. Biography is, at its simplest, the …

A Practical Psychoanalytic Guide to Reflexive Research offers an accessible guide to
enriched qualitative research. In this novel approach, the researcher's feelings and empathy …