Some Reflections About Narrative Research and Hurt and Harm

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When Professors Josselson and Lieblich wrote to me about their proposed journal of the narrative study of lives, I replied with a misgiving. That misgiving is that narrative research, based on the real lives of people made public, converts what is private into public; can violate privacy; and can cause mental, legal, social, and financial hurt and harm. The question came to my attention very forcibly some years ago when a young undergraduate student, who had transferred from another university, came to my office overwrought by humiliation and outrage. He waved a book on personality written by a professor whose class he had once been in at another ...

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