TY - JOUR PY - 2015// TI - Feelings and intersubjectivity in qualitative suicide research JO - Qualitative health research A1 - Boden, Zoe V. R. A1 - Gibson, Susanne A1 - Owen, Gareth J. A1 - Benson, Outi SP - 1078 EP - 1090 VL - 26 IS - 8 N2 - In this article, we explore how feelings permeated our qualitative research on suicide. Drawing on phenomenological theory, we argue for the epistemic and ethical importance of the feelings that emerge through research encounters, considering them to be embodied, intersubjective, and multilayered, and requiring careful interpretation through a "reflexivity of feelings." We sketch a tentative framework of the ways that we experienced feelings in our research and give three in-depth examples to illustrate some of the different layers and types of feelings we identified. We reflexively interpret these feelings and their role in our analysis and then discuss some of the ethical and methodological issues related to examining feelings in suicide research, and research more generally.

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LA - en SN - 1049-7323 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732315576709 ID - ref1 ER -