I am on a bit of annual leave and had hoped to get this research kick-started during this time but as often happens with the best laid plans, life gets in the way.
Recently a young man whom I have been in contact with for some time has finally managed to leave his parents home and the brethren. It is fascinating to watch the process he is going through particualarly in relation to how he feels about leaving his family especially his mother. Lots of parallels to my own life right now so I have lots of empathy for his mother but also because I remember leaving the brethren myself, lots for him too.
I think maybe it is because I know this research is going to be hard for me that I am allowing even minor events to intervene. I am going to have to think about this and find ways to enable me to focus. There is so little research out there on people brought up in cults and other high demand organisations - so little for me to read and learn from.
As this is a fairly serious blog with a specific purpose in mind, I have decided for the moment at least to moderate any comments posted. The second anonymous is correct, this blog is partly to fulfil the reflexivity requirement of my programme. Those who are not interested therefore do not have to read it. We all have choices
I feel alone with this and am hoping that this blog will attract other researchers in a similar field.
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I can see how research of this sort could be plagued by some major difficulties. (But I had better explain what I mean by direct email.)
On the plus side, this field of research is underpopulated, perhaps partly because of these very difficulties, and so any research you do is going to have a scarcity value.
And the questions to be answered are both topical and of very great consequence. Child development really matters. Children are our future. And they are among the human beings whose rights are most in need of protection.
I should perhaps have explained that my research will be using a qualitative methodology which has a different set of difficulties than the ones I think you are referring to Ian.
I will be interviewing a range of former EBs from different eras most likely but actually this has not all been thought out yet. This is what I am in the process of doing.
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