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Amedeo Giorgi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a response to the attempted critique of the scientific Phenomenological Method
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 2017Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:Recently, a book (details are given below) was published, the sole purpose of which was to discourage researchers from using the scientific Phenomenological Method. The author (Paley, 1997; 1998; 2000) had previously been critical of nurses who had used the scientific Phenomenological Method but in the new book he goes after the originators of different Methods of scientific Phenomenological research and attempts to criticize them severely. In this review I defend only the scientific Phenomenological Method that is strictly based upon the thought of Edmund Husserl. Given the entirely negative project of only critiquing Phenomenologically grounded scientific research, one would expect the author to be sensitive to the cautions historians and philosophers of science speak about when one attempts to criticize concepts and procedures that belong to a different research community. Paley, an empiricist, uses empirical criteria to criticize Phenomenological work.Moreover, given the entirely negative project of critiquing Phenomenologically grounded scientific research one would expect the author to be knowledgeable about phenomenology and the innovative research practices used by a new research community. However, (1) the author has only a thin, superficial understanding of phenomenology (e.g., it is not a technology; Paley, 2017, 109). One gets the impression that he only reads phenomenology in order to critique it. He displays an outsider’s understanding of it which means that his criticisms of it are faulty because he does not know how to think and dwell within the Phenomenological framework; (2) he does not understand “discovery-oriented” research and he keeps judging such research according to criteria from the “context of verification” perspective which are the wrong criteria for “discovery-oriented” research; (3) he denigrates and reduces nursing research strategies because he interprets them to be based on pragmatic motivations only. He does not even grant that nurses can have authentic scientific motivations for seeking Phenomenologically based Methods; (4) he uses unfair rhetorical strategies in the sense that he uses strategies himself that he criticizes when others use them. The review below documents what has been summarized here.
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an affirmation of the Phenomenological psychological descriptive Method a response to rennie 2012
Psychological Methods, 2014Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:: Rennie (2012) made the claim that, despite their diversity, all qualitative Methods are essentially hermeneutical, and he attempted to back up that claim by demonstrating that certain core steps that he called hermeneutical are contained in all of the other Methods despite their self-interpretation. In this article, I demonstrate that the Method I developed based upon Husserlian phenomenology cannot be so interpreted despite Rennie's effort to do so. I claim that the undertaking of a psychological investigation at large can be considered interpretive but that when the Phenomenological Method based upon Husserl is employed, it is descriptive. I also object to the attempt to reduce varied theoretical perspectives to the Methodical steps of one of the competing theories. Reducing theoretical perspectives to core steps distorts the full value of the theoretical perspective. The last point is demonstrated by showing how the essence of the descriptive Phenomenological Method is missed if one follows Rennie's core steps.
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difficulties encountered in the application of the Phenomenological Method in the social sciences
Análise Psicológica, 2012Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:While it is heartening to see that more researchers in the field of the social sciences are using some version of the Phenomenological Method, it is also disappointing to see that very often some of the steps employed do not always follow Phenomenological logic. In this article several dissertations are reviewed in order to point out some of the difficulties that are encountered in attempting to use some version of the Phenomenological Method. Difficulties encountered centered on the Phenomenological reduction, the use of imaginative variation and the feedback to subjects.
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the descriptive Phenomenological psychological Method
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:Abstract The author explains that his background was in experimental psychology but that he wanted to study the whole person and not fragmented psychological processes. He also desired a non-reductionistic Method for studying humans. Fortunately he came across the work of Edmund Husserl and discovered in the latter’s thought a way of researching humans that met the criteria he was seeking. Eventually he developed a Phenomenological Method for researching humans in a psychological way based upon the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. This article briefly describes the Method.
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the descriptive Phenomenological Method in psychology a modified husserlian approach
2009Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:Conceptual Framework The Qualitative Perspective in Researching Psychological Phenomena The research Process Scientific Phenomenological Method & Its Philosophical Context The Phenomenological Method The Application of the Method Index.
Jacquelyn Allencollinson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sporting embodiment sports studies and the continuing promise of phenomenology
Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, 2009Co-Authors: Jacquelyn AllencollinsonAbstract:Whilst in recent years sports studies have addressed the calls ‘to bring the body back in’ to theorisations of sport and physical activity, the ‘promise of phenomenology’ remains largely under‐realised with regard to sporting embodiment. Relatively few accounts are grounded in the ‘flesh’ of the lived sporting body, and phenomenology offers a powerful framework for such analysis. A wide‐ranging, multi‐stranded and interpretatively contested perspective phenomenology in general has been taken up and utilised in very different ways within different disciplinary fields. The purpose of this article is to consider some selected Phenomenological threads, key qualities of the Phenomenological Method and the potential for existentialist phenomenology in particular to contribute fresh perspectives to the sociological study of embodiment in sport and exercise. It offers one way to convey the ‘essences’, corporeal immediacy and textured sensuosity of the lived sporting body. The use of interpretative phenomenologica...
Rivka A Eisikovits - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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school as a place a Phenomenological Method for contemplating school environments
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2011Co-Authors: Ayala Zur, Rivka A EisikovitsAbstract:The study presents a Phenomenologically based research procedure, whose intent is to examine people’s school experience and the meaning they ascribe to ‘school.’ Participants in this investigative endeavor are instructed to sketch an ‘ideal school,’ present their plan in a visual‐schematic manner, and provide an oral and written description of their design. Proposals are presented through a Location Task – a tool originally intended for use by architects in their routine work with clients. We discuss the rationale behind this procedure and describe the research tool and its application potential. Finally, we illustrate the data processing via the analysis of one proposal designed by a 17‐year‐old male student.
Paul E Mullen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a modest proposal for another Phenomenological approach to psychopathology
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2006Co-Authors: Paul E MullenAbstract:In 1912, Karl Jaspers published an article entitled “The Phenomenological Approach to Psychopathology.” This and his subsequent text, General Psychopathology, was to exert a profound influence on the development of psychiatry in general and psychiatric nosology in particular. The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Classification of Diseases both reflect, at least in part, that legacy. This article will argue that the descriptive psychopathology of Jaspers has been gradually transformed into a caricature which has substituted authority for enquiry and simplification for subtlety. We have been left with classificatory systems which impose reified categories increasingly at variance with clinical reality and increasingly divorced from the data generated by scientific enquiry. Returning to the Phenomenological Method, despite its contradictions, may open the way to clinical and research approaches which free us from the current straightjacket of orthodoxy which is impending our progress.
Marilyn K Stiles - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the shining stranger application of the Phenomenological Method in the investigation of the nurse family spiritual relationship
Cancer Nursing, 1994Co-Authors: Marilyn K StilesAbstract:Although many nurses and families may develop a spiritual relationship, a review of the literature showed few studies and scant literature addressing this topic. Furthermore, no studies were identified that used Methodologies that provide descriptions and understanding of the meaning of this phenomenon. This article describes the application of the Phenomenological Method in the investigation of the meaning of a spiritual relationship between families and their nurses in a hospice setting. The Phenomenological Method can be used to uncover the meaning of experience through respondents' descriptions. Transcripts of interviews in which 11 nurses and 12 families were asked to describe their hospice experience were analyzed using Giorgi's approach to Husserlian phenomenology. Descriptions of nurse-family relationships were identified and synthesized into five thematic structures of experience: nurses' ways of being; nurses' ways of doing; nurses' ways of knowing; ways of receiving and giving; and ways of welcoming a stranger. The thematic structures of experience were synthesized into and interpreted as a metaunity of meaning. Through reflection, the unity of meaning was intuited as "The Shining Stranger." Analysis of selected Eastern and Western religious literature provided exemplars and a characterization of the shining stranger. Implications of the application of the Phenomenological Method are discussed.
