The final section of the book considers how IPA connects with other contemporary qualitative approaches like discourse and narrative analysis and how it addresses issues to do with validity. This handy text covers its theoretical foundations and provides a detailed guide to conducting IPA research.Įxtended worked examples from the authors' own studies in health, sexuality, psychological distress and identity illustrate the breadth and depth of IPA research.Įach of the chapters also offers a guide to other good exemplars of IPA research in the designated area. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an increasingly popular approach to qualitative inquiry. I can say this because these authors provide an engaging and clear introduction to a relatively new analytical approach' - The Weekly Qualitative Report

2015, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Keep the Home Fires Burning, London. 'It is not often I can use 'accessible' and 'phenomenology' in the same sentence, but reading the new book, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis.certainly provides me the occasion to do so. This horripilating experience is unwelcome, because it comes in the form of unwanted sexual advances at a time when the heroine is still innocent, but ultimately empowering, because it frees the heroine from any further vulnerability to seduction and gives her power over men.

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