“…Ideas about how research interviewing can be informed by the practice of psychoanalytic therapy have been subject to growing attention in recent years across a range of disciplines, including social work (see, for example, Archard, 2020aArchard, , 2021cBoyle et al, 2009;Garfield et al, 2010;Gregor et al, 2015;Guest, 2012;McAndrew and Warne, 2010;Nicholls, 2009;Nicholson et al, 2012;Storey et al, 2012;Sutton and Gates, 2019). Within this work, it has been acknowledged that research participation can be experienced as cathartic and therapeutic, which can be connected to contemporaneous non-psychoanalytic contributions addressing the topic of research beneficence, as well as earlier writing on the relationships between psychoanalysis and social research, and psychotherapeutic practice and research interviewing (see, for example, Birch and Miller, 2000;Hendin, 1964;Hendin et al, 1965;Herdt and Stoller, 1990;Hutchinson and Wilson, 1994).…”