ABSTRACT
The psychoanalytically inspired qualitative research approach of 'scenic-narrative microanalysis' is in line with a major methodological turn in psychotherapy research away from outcome and toward detailed process assessment. This chapter aims to reconstructing the reenactment of the traumatic experience in testimonies conducted with chronically psychiatrically hospitalized survivors of the Shoah, in the Yale video testimony study. It examines the interviewer's reactions within the testimonial situation, the interviewer's interactions with the participant, and the expert research team's reactions to the video testimonies. Scenic-narrative microanalysis is methodologically rooted in hermeneutic depth analysis. It is based on systematically reflecting the reader's reactions to the text. Scenic-narrative microanalysis elucidates the significant resonances to be found between the experiences of the researcher and the video data, as well as experiences in the interview 'scene' itself. This analytic approach eventually leads to hypotheses about resonant interactions in the patients' lives.
