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 Yäacov 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

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.