Tell Your Life Story: Creating Dialogue among Jews and Germans, Israelis and Palestinians

by Dan Bar-On

Describes Dan Bar-On's method of using storytelling as both a qualitative biographical research method and as an intervention, to bring people from opposite sides of an abyss to a dialogue. Such work needs slow pace and long-term commitment, with a special combination of a scientific rigorous analysis with a sensitive approach toward the people one approaches.

258 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2006

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though I thought that the message in this book was highly important, as someone who is not a psychologist I wish there had been more storytelling and less in-depth explanation of method. The line of stories from the German-Jewish groups to the Palestinian-Israeli groups was fascinating, I definitely learned a lot in how each side perceives itself and the other.