Email correspondence, interpretation and the psychoanalytically informed research interview.
data collection
interviews
mental health
mental health therapies
qualitative research
research
research methods
study participation
therapeutic relationships
Journal
Nurse researcher
ISSN: 2047-8992
Titre abrégé: Nurse Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9435953
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
20 Jan 2022
20 Jan 2022
Historique:
accepted:
08
06
2021
entrez:
20
1
2022
pubmed:
21
1
2022
medline:
21
1
2022
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Approaching qualitative interviews using principles drawn from psychoanalytic therapy can assist nurse researchers in developing nuanced accounts of participants' and their own subjectivity. Yet, doing so means confronting questions about the use of psychoanalytic concepts and techniques outside the traditional clinical context of the consulting room. To consider the researcher's interpretive involvement when a psychoanalytically informed interview approach is used with specific reference to email correspondence as a form of interpretive intervention. The authors describe the experience of completing a study involving a psychoanalytically informed interview approach. The interpretive quality of email correspondence is illustrated via reference to the case of one study participant for whom this correspondence appeared to help in the level of insight afforded overall. When using a psychoanalytically informed interview approach, researchers should consider emails delineating topics for discussion in follow-up interviews as a form of interpretive intervention. Nurse researchers interested in this type of method should reflect on the interpretive function of email correspondence. Pre-participation and pre-interview dialogue with participants may be used to explore participants' views on the potentially therapeutic aspects of participation and what might be related to them of the researcher's understanding.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Approaching qualitative interviews using principles drawn from psychoanalytic therapy can assist nurse researchers in developing nuanced accounts of participants' and their own subjectivity. Yet, doing so means confronting questions about the use of psychoanalytic concepts and techniques outside the traditional clinical context of the consulting room.
AIM
OBJECTIVE
To consider the researcher's interpretive involvement when a psychoanalytically informed interview approach is used with specific reference to email correspondence as a form of interpretive intervention.
DISCUSSION
CONCLUSIONS
The authors describe the experience of completing a study involving a psychoanalytically informed interview approach. The interpretive quality of email correspondence is illustrated via reference to the case of one study participant for whom this correspondence appeared to help in the level of insight afforded overall.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
When using a psychoanalytically informed interview approach, researchers should consider emails delineating topics for discussion in follow-up interviews as a form of interpretive intervention.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE
CONCLUSIONS
Nurse researchers interested in this type of method should reflect on the interpretive function of email correspondence. Pre-participation and pre-interview dialogue with participants may be used to explore participants' views on the potentially therapeutic aspects of participation and what might be related to them of the researcher's understanding.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35048621
doi: 10.7748/nr.2022.e1809
pii: e1809
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
None declared