Boundaries and Relationships in Homelessness Work: Lola, an Agency Manager

Abstract

The professional is also a human being. This paper explores the complementary and con­tra­dictory relation between biography and vocation in the history of a nurse who became a social work manager, as revealed in a biographic-narrative interview. It touches on the difficulties of providing insights to the interviewee in the form of feedback in a case-study paper of this kind, interpreting this difficulty through the concept of 'defended sub­jectivity', and on the theory-in-use in social work and professional training.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0401132