“Sο often, we who have dedicated ourselves to the study of lives over time engage in this endeavor alone. We fret away in isolation, full of doubts, questions, and uncertainties. Not only do we typically struggle with the vagaries and low points of this work alone, we usually experience any high points, triumphs, and joys alone as well.”
Melvin E. Miller, 1996, p. 129 “Ethics and Understanding
Through Interrelationship. I and Thou in dialogue.”
Josselson, R. H. (Ed.). (2012). Ethics and process in the narrative study of lives. Retrieved from http://ebookcentral.proquest.com
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“Language can never contain a whole person, so every act of writing a person’s life is inevitably a violation,”
Josselson (1996, p. 62) On writing other people’s lives:Self-analytic reflections of a narrativeresearcher. In R. Josselson (Ed.),Ethics and process in the narrative study of lives(Vol. 4,pp. 60-71). Thousand Oaks,CA:Sage.