Abstract
This article shares a research methodology that we argue supports human science researchers in their aim to understand lived experiences more fully. Drawing on Merleau-Pontian thinking, the paper outlines three dimensions of sense experience that underpin our approach: the felt-sense, aesthetic aspects of language, and visual imagery. We then detail this approach: the data-collection phase is a creative interviewing method, adapted from Imagery in Movement Method (Schneier, 1989) and focusing technique (Gendlin, 1997). This results in multimodal data: drawings, bodily and verbal accounts, rich in imagery. The analysis is an expanded hermeneutic-phenomenology, and in this article we focus in particular on our method for interpreting visual data. Three examples taken from a case-study about feeling guilty are provided to illustrate the potential of the approach. The paper concludes with some reflections on the impact of using a multimodal approach in human science research.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 160-177 |
Journal | Qualitative Research in Psychology |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 24 Oct 2013 |
Bibliographical note
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Qualitative Research in Psychology on 24/10/2013, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14780887.2013.853854Keywords
- guilt
- phenomenology
- hermeneutics
- Visual methods
- Drawings
- embodied methods
- multi-modal research
- idiographic
- interpretative phenomenological analysis