Amia Lieblich is an Israeli psychologist and writer, who has gained prominence in the field of qualitative research

Qualitative research

Qualitative research is a method of inquiry employed in many different academic disciplines, traditionally in the social sciences, but also in market research and further contexts. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such...

 (and narrative studies) in psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

. Lieblich is professor emeritus

Emeritus

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 from Hebrew University, where she has also served as dean

Dean (education)

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 of students.
Since her retirement from Hebrew University she is a faculty member at the Academic College of Tel Aviv.

Lieblich's research focuses, among other fields, on various aspects of Israeli society including military service, the Kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

 movement, life stories of women, and the "new family" in Israel.

Lieblich has published numerous books in Hebrew, some of which were translated to several languages, including English

English language

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 and Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

. Her publications involve academic works as well as books intended for a wider audience.

She has also co-edited, with Ruthellen Josselson

Ruthellen Josselson

Ruthellen Josselson, Ph.D. is Professor of clinical psychology at The Fielding Graduate University and a psychotherapist in practice.-Work:She was formerly a Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Towson University, a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and a Visiting Fellow at...

 and Dan P. McAdams, the eleven-book series "The Narrative Study of Lives."

Publications in English

• Tin Soldiers on Jerusalem Beach (Pantheon, 1978)
• Kibbutz Makom (Pantheon, 1981)
• Transition to Adulthood During Military Service (SUNY Press, 1989)
• Seasons of Captivity: the Inner World of POWs (NYU Press, 1994)
• Conversations with Dvora: An Experimental Biography of the First Modern Hebrew Woman Writer (UC Press, 1997)
• Narrative Research: Reading, Analysis, and Interpretation (With Rivka Tuval-Mashiach and Tamar Zilber, Sage, 1998)
• Learning about Lea (Athena, 2003)