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The Imagework Method in Health and Social Science Research

Department of Anthropology at Durham University

Existing alongside the traditional forms of qualitative social science research, there is a set of potential research methods that derive from experiential groupwork and the humanistic human potential movement and are only slightly used by researchers. Social science research has barely begun to use these powerful strategies that were developed originally for personal and group change but that are potentially applicable to the research domain. This article will locate these methods within the qualitative research domain and propose a novel view of their value. The study of the actual and potential use of one of these methods, imagework, will be the particular focus of this article. References to the use of artwork, sculpting, psychodrama, gestalt, and dreamwork will also be made. The hypothesis underpinning the author’s approach is that experiential research methods such as imagework can elicit implicit knowledge and self-identities of respondents in a way that other methods cannot.

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 9, No. 2, 198-211 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/104973299129121785


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