Recalling emotional recall: reflecting on the methodological significance of affective memory in autoethnography

Fox, Ragan

doi:10.1080/10462937.2021.1915497

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“…When I decided to write this autoethnography, I first engaged in emotional recall (Ellis, 2004; Fox, 2021) to chronicle my illness episode while providing thick descriptions of particularly outstanding situations and interactions. To allow myself the immersion in past situations, I employed various strategies: I looked at pictures I took, listened to voice messages I had sent to friends and family as well as music I had engaged with during that time.…”

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Five Coffin Nails to Informed Consent: An Autoethnography of Suffering Complications in Breastfeeding

Klingler

2023

Qual Health Res

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This autoethnography describes an illness episode caused by breastfeeding complications. It focuses on informed consent processes accompanying this illness episode. Informed consent is a cornerstone of ethical medical practice and has to be obtained before a medical intervention can legally be implemented. It is therefore not trivial that in practice, informed consent processes often fail to achieve what they are set out to. With this autoethnography, I want to provide a review of how informed consent processes can fail in the context of breastfeeding, but also draw attention to what these situations can mean and feel like for those affected. I provide in-depth descriptions of five scenes from my illness episode each representing a different barrier to informed consent. The scenes were developed based on emotional recall and written to grant access to the emotional dimensions of my experience in the tradition of evocative autoethnography. As part of my story, I engage with various issues like practices of prescribing, communicative requirements in vulnerable situations to ensure understanding, the dual purpose of informed consent in the moral and legal realm, and the moralized breastfeeding discourse. Possible routes for change to abolish or reduce described barriers to informed consent are discussed.

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Five Coffin Nails to Informed Consent: An Autoethnography of Suffering Complications in Breastfeeding

Klingler

2023

Qual Health Res

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“…This is where the author revisits the experience emotionally and physically in their imagination, which helps in recalling details. Emotional recall requires more than the author describing their memories of a feeling, the author must re-experience those feelings again (Fox, 2021). To aid in re-experiencing emotions, authors can use sensory data from the original experience (Fox, 2021).…”

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“…Emotional recall requires more than the author describing their memories of a feeling, the author must re-experience those feelings again (Fox, 2021). To aid in re-experiencing emotions, authors can use sensory data from the original experience (Fox, 2021). For my research this might mean visiting the spare room at my grandparents' house, where I lived for a year during the worst phase of my eating disorder.…”

Section: Memory Data Collection Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What's in a Name? The Social Meanings of Eating Disorder Diagnoses: An Autoethnography

Whiskin

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<p>This autoethnography examines my experience of diagnostic crossover during an eating disorder to explore the meanings I made of different diagnoses. Drawing on memory data, self-observation data, and medical records, I constructed three fictional stories centred on three main themes: diagnosis, female friendships, and physical observations. These stories represent the findings of my study. I then connect the data and stories with other eating disorder research and feminist theory to examine how my own experience of diagnoses intertwines with social constructions of femininity as well as social and medical portrayals of eating disorders. This autoethnographic account sheds light on the potential negative implications of the current diagnostic system and encourages the use of patient knowledge when constructing diagnostic categories.</p>

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Unforeseen emotional labour: A collaborative autoethnography exploring researcher experiences of studying Long COVID in health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

MacIver,

Adams,

Torrance

et al. 2024

SSM - Qualitative Research in Health

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Recalling emotional recall: reflecting on the methodological significance of affective memory in autoethnography

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Five Coffin Nails to Informed Consent: An Autoethnography of Suffering Complications in Breastfeeding

Five Coffin Nails to Informed Consent: An Autoethnography of Suffering Complications in Breastfeeding

What's in a Name? The Social Meanings of Eating Disorder Diagnoses: An Autoethnography

Unforeseen emotional labour: A collaborative autoethnography exploring researcher experiences of studying Long COVID in health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

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