Too close for comfort? The emotional labour of researching eating disorders.
“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.” ― Fernando Pessoa I feel wrung out. As the end of writing my thesis draws ever nearer I feel a little as if…
Posts Tagged: hermeneutic process
Thesis organisation…
Exploring male disordered eating identities: a hermeneutic study of men’s stories of their experiences with food, body and self. Abstract Acknowledgements Chapter 1 – Introduction and literature Brief contextual overview…
Working between interpretive immersion and chapter drafting – not for the faint-hearted?
Apologies for the decidedly chaotic presentation in this post but here’s the latest outpouring of everything I’ve assembled during my work on the stories you’ve sent in. The sheer number…
“Physics is the only science – the rest is just social work” – James D Watson
As I work on bringing all of my analytical and interpretive work together, slowly assembling the thesis – like a painful building project that must be seen through despite its…
Returning your stories
I’m pleased to say that by Christmas I’ll be able to send my raw interpretations back to you guys who contributed your story for you to see what you think…
The Issue of Empathy in Interpretation
Back in August I journalled about something that I had been meaning to get my head around for quite some time, which is the ability to truly empathise with the…
The Ugly Feeling of Envy
Envy is the absence of heartfelt acceptance. Envy has come through a great deal in the Red Interpretations and before I did any specific research about it, I wanted to…
How ‘The Story of…’ has been arrived at.
For each man I’ve worked with his whole story at anyone time, resisting more traditional social science approaches to break the ext apart into smaller units of analysis. However, what…
Thesis Skeleton Structure
I’ve recently been thinking about how my written up thesis will be organised, thinking it would be complicated and rather hard to mesh all of the interwoven interpretations together, especially…
Hermeneutic Process in Men’s Stories of Eating Disorder.
Hermeneutic Process (opens as a PDF) Today I’m posting some work I did during my research time last week to begin to attempt to find a representation of the interpretive process I’m working…
Interpretation 3 (Dark Blue Interpretation)
Now I’m busy thinking about interpretation 3 which was originally referred to as ‘Interplay’. – Knocking at the text – the story is asked questions of and answers are sought…