The empathetic profiler and ethics: trauma narrative as advocacy
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2015
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Joseph, S.
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Joseph, S.
Keeble, R.L.
Keeble, R.L.
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Source details - Title: Profile Pieces, 2015 / Joseph, S., Keeble, R.L. (ed./s), Ch.14, pp.211-225
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A definition of empathy in its simplest form is to imagine ourselves in another’s shoes. This chapter posits the near impossibility of attaining that within a trauma narrative interview, implicitly because of the trauma and attendant horrors, and that impossibility informing a response beyond empathy. Trauma narrative tends toward an almost fundamental form of the profile, as it usually interrogates the rawest of moments in an individual’s life – often life changing, with intense ramifications, commented upon not just by the subject but those around the subject.
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Copyright 2015 Taylor & Francis