Free Psychology Books: the Emotional Nature of Qualitative Research by C. R. Figley eds

the Emotional Nature of Qualitative Research by C. R. Figley eds

Emotional intelligence, a concept coined by Goleman,1 is the ability to dis-cern, utilize, and shape the emotional reactions of self and others. Emotions represent an area rich in tradition and span fields of study, as well as culture and time. This is the latest book in the series, Innovations in Psychology. Professor Kathleen Gilbert, through this book, introduces the field to an important new area, emotion-focused research. Emotions include, but are not limited to, stress and flow or lack of it (the manifestation of emotions), feelings (that represent and cause the emotion stress), and emotional controls (our efforts to modulate our emotional effects). Emotions account for an extraordinary amount of the human expe-rience. It is remarkable how little we know about this phenomenon. It is about time that we address the emotional nature of research. “How do we manage the emotions stimulated by researchers? What does it mean if the researcher is profoundly affected by the experience, even to the extent of going through a spiritual epiphany?”Dr. Gilbert, a professor at Indiana University for many years, addresses these and other related questions in a book for researchers and practitioners who wish to apply qualitative (as opposed to simply quantitative/data analysis-driven) research methods to human research. The tradition of this book series represents substantial and trendsetting innovations in psychology, has set new agendas for burnout in families, 2and has opened new areas of clinical innovation by introducing energy psychol-ogy, 3 traumatology, 4,5 and poetry therapy. 6 In a period of substantial scholarly activity in the social and medical sciences, giving voice to research participants is suddenly more acceptable beyond anthropology and those practitioners of qualitative research meth-ods. This trend is part of a larger cultural trend, even a global trend. In part this is due to the impersonal aspects of the internet, the growing concentration of people in the cities, and other demographic explanations. However, some suggest that psychology has lost its heart and soul. Gone are the influences of social psychology that led to major breakthroughs in......

 
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