Emotionally Involved

by Rebecca Campbell

Tackling difficult issues, Emotionally Involved gives a vivid picture the challenges researchers who studey traumatic events face. It is essential reading for researchers, therapists, fieldworkers, for those on the frontlines of rape crisis and domestic violence work, and for anyone concerned with the role of emotions in social science.

Genres: Research, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published November 23, 2001

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Reviews

[Noémie]

nécessité de lire ce livre pour toustes celleux qui travaillent sur les VSS !

[Lissette M Saavedra]

Superb.. if you do this work.

[Veronica]

A must read for anyone who works with people and you hear their tales of woe and it makes you feel helpless.

[Maggie Gordon]

Emotionally Involved is a powerful and important book about the affects of researching rape on scholars, and the importance of making sure emotions are a careful and purposeful part of the research process. It is carefully cited and wonderfully laid out monograph. While it does not cover absolutely everything in this field, it makes a fantastic push into a neglected topic and I hope other academics have expanded on these ideas further.

[Sally Kenney]

Finally finished this book recommended to me so long ago by Ray Douglas and found it enormously helpful. Wish I had read it when writing my Rosalie Wahl piece, as it captures the hostility in social science to any researcher emotion. Hope to assign parts of it to my honors colloquium.

[Agata Okon]

I found this book in my university library, it interested me as I have never seen a book about the impact of researching rape which I would assume to be huge. Especially since I want to work in a related field, I wanted to find out more about how emotionally challenging is to work with survivors. Sometimes it was a hard read and I needed to take a break to read, but it is a very important book.