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Harriet, My sense is that outside of sociology qualative methods are viewed with a degree of sceptcism, though that is changing slowly, and perhaps you should be looking more toward sociologically influenced bodies. However if you are tracing attitude changes over time you might find it helpful too look at methedologies such as those developed by Bill Stiles (in the Honos Webb article). He is very respectable and that might be helpful with funding bodies. Regards At 14:41 12/02/99 -0600, you wrote: >Hi all, > >Thanks so much for the references which have appeared so far. I am off to >the library to find some of them. . . > >To Alan, who asked the focus of the research, perhaps I misled you. >Actually I am a psychotherapist, as is my colleague. The data comes from >interviews conducted several years ago by other psychotherapists for >research purposes. The original work explored the experience of pregnant >women but we will be asking the data different questions than the original >study sought. The subjects are not actually "in" therapy, but the data >looks very much like data which might have come from therapeutic sessions >in terms of process, relationship development, etc. We are interested in >the mental activities of the women, eg. how are they thinking (consciously >and unconsciously) of their baby? Are changes in their own relationship >with their mothers, with their husbands reflected in the material? That >sort of thing. > >Is this enough? > >Harriet Meek > Alan Cartwright PhD Code-A-Text Developer Email [log in to unmask] web page http://www.codeatext.u-net.com Also Senior Lecturer In Psychotherapy Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences. University of Kent. UK. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%