Participants and researchers searching for meaning: interpretative phenomenological analysis and the experience of pain
Smith, Jonathan A. (2018) Participants and researchers searching for meaning: interpretative phenomenological analysis and the experience of pain. Qualitative Research in Psychology 16 (2), pp. 166-181. ISSN 1478-0887.
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Abstract
In this paper, I describe an extended theoretical positioning for IPA’s inherent concern with meaning-making on the part of both participant and researcher. It arises from thinking I have done as part of giving a set of keynote presentations in 2017-18 (in London, UK; Florida, USA; Poitiers, France ). The paper presents a composite of the ideas outlined in the keynotes and stays close to the oral voice of the talks. I am grateful to the conference organizers for inviting me and so helping me to develop this piece. In it, I draw on a range of writings on meaning and use them to elaborate on what is meant by IPA’s concern with the search for meaning. In order to illustrate how this works in practice, I then take some examples from studies I have conducted on the experience of pain and link the theoretical ideas to the studies’ findings.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available online at the link above. |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Jonathan Smith |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2018 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/24904 |
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