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Book SynopsisThis book uses Viktor Frankl’s Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist imprisoned for three years in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl believed the search for meaning is a powerful motivator, and that its discovery can be profoundly therapeutic. Part I begins with four stories of professors finding meaning. Using the case studies as a foundation, Part II investigates issues of epistemology and ethics in unusually personal research from an existential perspective. The book offers advice for graduate students and faculty who want to live and work more meaningfully in the academy.
Table of Contents1. Introduction to Mesearch2. Mesearch in the Social and Behavioral Sciences3. Mesearch in the Hard Sciences4. Mesearch in the Arts and Humanities5. Autoethnography6. Mesearch in Graduate School7. Mesearch and Motivation8. To Disclose or Not?9. Getting a Job and Getting Tenure10. Mesearch as Therapeutic Practice11. Mesearch and Activism12. The Case for a New Epistemology13. The Future of Mesearch
