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[Autom. eng. transl.] Since its origins, psychology has posed the problem of ethics, both from a deontological and methodological point of view. Psychology, in fact, both as a research and as a professional conduct concerns human beings and therefore raises delicate questions: professional secrecy, the right to privacy, anonymity, the protection of professional well-being are in fact subject to the criterion of thinking and acting with respect to to the person as an end and not as a means and to the principle of the inalienable right of the person to his separateness and individuality (Battacchi, 2001). The present contribution is offered as a stimulus to consider the ethical question also from the point of view of choice of methods and techniques: the qualitative researcher must be extremely sensitive towards his research practices, not only to guarantee an ethical attitude as much as possible, but also to observe the subtle and implicit repercussions they have on the knowledge-building process.