scholarly journals Rhythms of intuition. Methodological reflections in phenomenological psychology

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-131
Author(s):  
Benedikte Kudahl ◽  
Tone Roald
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Research Procedure

This paper discusses how different concepts of rhythm apply to phenomenological psychological research. We suggest that viewing phenomenological research in psychology as rhythmic not just enables us to notice how the research procedure implies certain shifts within in a series of temporally structured movements of repetition and change; it also enables us to deepen our understanding of the manner in which the researcher engages with the studied phenomenon through intuition. In other words, we argue that rhythm is fundamental to the method of how we understand “the things themselves.”

The Necessity of the Epochē and Reduction for a Husserlian Phenomenological Science of Psychology

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Amedeo Giorgi
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Phenomenological Method

Abstract In adapting Husserl’s philosophical phenomenological method to conduct research in psychology I included Husserl’s two methodical steps, the epochē and the reduction (sometimes combined), as part of the scientific procedure. Zahavi objected to my use of those steps. This article is a response to his objections and it is a reaffirmation of the necessity of the epochē and reduction for Husserlian phenomenological psychological research. A description of Husserl’s acknowledged types of psychology and a description of his transcendental phenomenology are also presented along with two outlines of how Husserlian phenomenological research could be conducted.

Psychologism and Phenomenological Psychology Revisited, Part II: The Return to Positivity

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Cosgrove ◽  
Larry Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Science ◽  
Transcendental Subjectivity ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
Naturalistic Approach

AbstractThe last in a series of examinations, this paper articulates Husserl's mature position on the nature of a phenomenologically informed human science. Falling between the naïve positivity of a naturalistic approach to psychology and the transcendental view of consciousness at the base of phenomenological philosophy, we argue that a human scientific psychology—while not itself transcendental in nature needs to re-arise upon the transcendental ground as an empirical—but no longer transcendentally naïve—discipline through Husserl's notion of the "return to positivity." This notion of the return allows us to avoid "transcendental psychologism," differentiating psychological from transcendental subjectivity but from a transcendental, rather than naïve perspective. In this way, the return to positivity reclaims psychology as a worldly, but no longer naïve, discipline. To facilitate an understanding of the different perspectives in question, and the process of leaving the naturalistic perspective in order to return to it once armed with a transcendental understanding and its associated tools, we continue to develop the illustrative example of anorexia provided in the first part of this series. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of this framework for transcendental reforms both of clinical practice and of psychological research.

A Phenomenological and Perceptual Research Methodology for Understanding Hypnotic Experiencing

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 887-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrick James Woodard
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Experimental Situation ◽  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Perceptual Psychology ◽  
To Come

Phenomenology and perceptual psychology opens up the essential meanings of hypnosis by presenting a qualitative method as an alternative to the current predominant quantitative method in the study of hypnosis. Scales that measure susceptibility from behavioral and cognitive aspects abound in the hypnosis literature, but understanding the structure of hypnotic experiencing is yet to come. A new qualitative approach to researching hypnotic experiencing by combining aspects of phenomenological research as in work of Giorgi, Moustakas, and Wertz, familiarity with Husserl's philosophy, and a perceptual psychological research method (cf. work by Combs, Richards, & Richards and by Wasicsko). The author utilized this combined methodology to formulate the theory of Perceptually Oriented Hypnosis. This methodology enables the therapist or professional and patient or client to share benefits from the effects of their hypnotic experiencing in its intersubjective sense. This method can be applied in numerous life situations such as teaching and therapy in addition to the experimental situation.

Richard Kearney’s Relevance for Psychology: A Review Essay

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-225
Author(s):  
Neal DeRoo
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Linguistic Approach ◽  
Cultural Role

Abstract This essay argues that Richard Kearney’s philosophical work has something important to say to phenomenological psychology and, in turn, has something important to learn from it. It begins by highlighting a movement of return after deconstruction, consistent throughout Kearney’s oeuvre, that emerges clearly in the recently published Imagination Now collection—which contains some of Kearney’s most important writings. It then shows how this movement is a fundamentally therapeutic endeavor. A quick review of several recent volumes about Kearney’s work makes clear how his philosophy suggests an embodied and not simply a linguistic approach to therapy. As such, a certain phenomenological psychology is revealed as being implicitly operative in Kearney’s work. The essay then ends by highlighting three possible benefits of having phenomenological psychologists engage with Kearney’s work: a revaluation of the non-cognitive aspects of subjective constitution, a renewed look at the role of both the narrative and carnal dimensions in psychological research and psychotherapy, and an even more enhanced socio-cultural role for phenomenological psychology.

The Early history of Phenomenological Psychological Research in America

1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Cloonan
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Human Science ◽  
Early History ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Psychological Method ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractThis article on the early history of phenomenological psychological research in the academic context in America focuses on the four approaches of the following respective psychologists: 1) Donald Snygg, Arthur W. Combs, and Anne C. Richards and Fred Richards; 2) Robert B. MacLeod; 3) Adrian L. van Kaam; and 4) Amedeo P. Giorgi. It begins by first addressing the "context" for this early history namely, the European origin of philosophical phenomenology and the connection of it with the psychology of its times in Europe, and then the American background for the development of a sensibility for phenomenology and an eventual connection of phenomenology with psychology. Each of the four positions was examined in terms of basic approach to the study of human experience and behavior. That is, examination was directed toward whether the respective position was under the aegis of psychology as a human science or as a natural science. Also examined were the research postures and the methodologies of the four positions in terms of their respective degrees of reflecting either the human science or the natural science approach, and in terms of their approximation to a phenomenological psychology. It was found that syncretism characterized the approaches of the first three positions, and that there was either an absence of phenomenological psychological method in the psychologies of those positions or, in the case of MacLeod, an undeveloped and non-worked-out method. Only the work of Amedeo Giorgi presented 1) a human science approach that was radical and not compromised by natural science syncretions, and 2) an articulated phenomenological psychological method based on Husserl's concept of intentionality and on mediation of Merleau-Ponty's philosophical phenomenological method.

scholarly journals Phenomenological psychology and qualitative research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Englander ◽  
James Morley
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Sample Analysis ◽  
Scientific Psychology ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Analysis Process ◽  
Hands On ◽  
History Of ◽  
Detailed Outline

AbstractThis article presents the tradition of phenomenologically founded psychological research that was originally initiated by Amedeo Giorgi. This data analysis method is inseparable from the broader project of establishing an autonomous phenomenologically based human scientific psychology. After recounting the history of the method from the 1960’s to the present, we explain the rationale for why we view data collection as a process that should be adaptable to the unique mode of appearance of each particular phenomenon being researched. The substance of the article is then devoted to a detailed outline of the method’s whole-part-whole procedure of data analysis. We then offer a sample analysis of a brief description of an ordinary daydream. This is an anxiety daydream in response to the recent Covid-19 pandemic. We present this daydream analysis in full to show the concrete hands-on 5 step process through which the researcher explicated the participants’ expressions from the particular to the general. From this brief sample analysis, the researcher offers a first-person reflection on the data analysis process to offer the reader an introduction to the diacritical nature of phenomenological psychological elucidation.

Recent Developments of Ambulatory Assessment Methods

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hey ◽  
Panagiota Anastasopoulou ◽  
André Bideaux ◽  
Wilhelm Stork
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Physiological Sensors

Ambulatory assessment of emotional states as well as psychophysiological, cognitive and behavioral reactions constitutes an approach, which is increasingly being used in psychological research. Due to new developments in the field of information and communication technologies and an improved application of mobile physiological sensors, various new systems have been introduced. Methods of experience sampling allow to assess dynamic changes of subjective evaluations in real time and new sensor technologies permit a measurement of physiological responses. In addition, new technologies facilitate the interactive assessment of subjective, physiological, and behavioral data in real-time. Here, we describe these recent developments from the perspective of engineering science and discuss potential applications in the field of neuropsychology.

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