About the Editors vii
Contributing Authors ix
Preface xi
Part I Engaging Qualitative Research and the Relational-centred Approach 1
Introduction 1
1 Qualitative Relational-centred Research: A 'Voyage of Discovery' 3
2 Competing Qualitative Research Traditions 13
3 Embodied Co-creation: Theory and Values for Relational Research 29
4 Challenging 'Evidence-based Practice' 45
5 Quality in Qualitative Relational-centred Research 59
Part II Relational-centred Research: Being and Doing 69
Introduction 69
6 Setting Up Research 71
7 The Research Encounter: Co-creating your Data 87
8 Embracing Relational Research: Learning from Therapy 107
9 Engaging 'Process' 127
10 Analysis of Data Linda Finlay Anna Madill 145
11 Relational Ethics 159
12 Becoming a Relational Researcher 175
Part III Relational-centred Research in Action 183
Introduction 183
13 'My Heart was Killing Me': A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Anger Virginia Eatough 185
14 A Therapist's Portrait of a Clinical Encounter with a Somatizer Maria Luca 197
15 Relating through Difference: A Critical Narrative Analysis Darren Langdridge 213
16 A Journey into Survival and Coping by Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Susan L Morrow 227
References 241
Index 259