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Reflexive accounts of my autobiography (Ross 1997) and re-construction and re-enactments
through transference in personal therapy suggest a lack of maternal containment and this
may be something I was unconsciously seeking out or particularly alert to. There is a ‘seen’
and ‘being seen’ quality of these psychoanalytic interviews that risks conscious and
unconscious emergence and revelation - part of which each interviewee must have realized.
Secondly, the importance of voice. What comes across from the audio recordings was how
important tone of voice is in communication, where every voice has conscious and
unconscious resonance (Wright 2009). Awareness of voice, tone, inflection, pauses and
silence has the potential to offer a qualitative research tool for interpreting the actual words
spoken, as a hermeneutic form of listening (Kimball and Garrison 1996). JB’s voice is
softer than her sometimes strident responses read in the text and a different aspect of her
voice was captured through hearing her on the telephone which she received during the
interview - a possibility that she had alerted me to before the interview started. PM’s voice
is quiet, gentle and enquiring. AL laughs, conveying excitement and energy. AP is studied,
perceptive with an analytic insight of confident enquiry. AN has a deep voice that rushes
into subjects then steps back with an ebb and flow of ideas. JG is that of a quiet measured
wisdom and boyish excitement at times. The tone of voice captures the aliveness of a
session, and featured in a later qualitative research day where sections of two interviews (JB
and AN) were played. The impact was to replicate in the group the dynamics I had
experienced in the interview (see chapter twenty).
Thirdly, I discovered the extent of my personal investment and that of the participants. A
cost of doing qualitative research is the requirement to retain the integrity of acknowledging
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