The chapter outlines some ways in which qualitative researchers have drawn on psychoanalysis to inform interviewing strategies. The ‘free association narrative interview’ and the concept of the ‘defended subject’ are described, and how these led to the consideration of unconscious dynamics in interviews is explored. The work of Lorenzer, and the tradition of depth hermeneutics, are shown to have provided an arena for exploring interviewer countertransference. An example where participant feelings were disavowed and projected into interviewers is put forward. The concept of ‘scenic composition’ is also explored, which draws on the researcher’s emotional responsiveness and receptivity to the research environment, to create vivid, poetic research vignettes. Bion’s notion of reverie is explored as a means of helping interviewers develop interpretation-like, yet research-focused responses live in interviews. An example shows how an image that came to the researcher’s mind during an interview was incorporated into a verbalisation and seemed to chime with the participant’s emotional experience. Furthermore, a prototypical research hypothesis also generated from the reverie experience is mentioned. Criticisms and ethical complexities of the coming together of psychoanalysis and qualitative interviewing are discussed throughout.