Book Review: Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology: Combining Core Approaches

Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology: Combining Core Approaches

Nollaig Frost.(ed.) (2011). Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Phenomenology For Therapists: Researching The Lived World

Linda Finlay. (2011). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

First of all, a warning: Do not judge these books by their covers! Looking, for example, at the cover image of Finlay's Phenomenology for Therapists: Researching the Lived World, which is apparently entitled 'Executives standing in lobby' (no joke), the impression is of somewhat mesmerised or robot-like humans that could have stepped out of an episode of Dr Who, bearing no relationship with the content of the book at all (see below). However, focusing first on Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology: Combining Core Approaches, the old adage not to judge the book by the cover goes even further than that. In fact, I would ask the reader not to judge this book by the first 117 pages either. With only another 75 pages of main text to go thereafter, the reader of this review may start to wonder

Julie Webb