chapter 1 Introduction: why are we interested in emotions? -- chapter 2 Feminist research with women awaiting trial: the effects on participants in the qualitative research process -- chapter 3 The management of self: practical and emotional implications of ethnographic work in a public hospital setting -- chapter 4 Narrative methods in qualitative research: potential for therapeutic transformation -- chapter 5 Mirrors: seeing each other and ourselves through fieldwork -- chapter 6 Qualitative research as a spiritual experience -- chapter 7 Emotions as analytic tools: qualitative research, feelings, and psychotherapeutic insight -- chapter 8 Collateral damage? Indirect exposure of staff members to the emotions of qualitative research -- chapter 9 Extreme dilemmas in performance ethnography: unleashed emotionality of performance in critical areas of suicide, abuse, and madness* / chapter 10 An act of subversion: night workers on the fringe of dawn — from bow-wave to deluge