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Razzaq expands on autoethnography as an interdisciplinary approach which embraces different theoretical and methodological positionings. It originates from the field of anthropology, ethnography (people and cultures with their customs, habits, and differences), and sociology. It is a first-person, insider account drawing on literature to self-experience that illuminates an epiphany or powerful experience to make meaning. This often reveals a conflict of culture and or self within dominant and discursive narratives. Autoethnography has many forms and overlaps various styles, such as literary autoethnography, poetic autoethnography, meta-autoethnography, and performance autoethnography. Originally feeling baffled by dominant discourses, distancing academic texts, and conceptually rigid frameworks the author shares her search for research which both can transform wounds and deepen psychological understanding.
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Razzaq, S.G. (2022). Autoethnographic Psychotherapy Research: A Methodology that Keeps Our ‘Heart in Mind’. In: Bager-Charleson, S., McBeath, A. (eds) Supporting Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13942-0_5
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