Title: Phenomenology as a style of research and practice
Abstract: AbstractThe paper presents analysis of principles, treatments and ways of using phenomenology in psychology. Six different ways of using in psychology are discerned: as(1) a of clarifying of phenomena of consciousness and concepts,(2) a way of differentiation, description and analysis of psychopathological phenomena,(3) a way of understanding and penetration to the living world of a person,(4) a form of subjective self-reports of participants,(5) a of psychotherapeutic work with experience,(6) a qualitative research strategy in academic psychology.The approach to phenomenology as a special style of research and practice, which implies the intuitive, reflective, unprejudiced, descriptive, detailed approach to phenomena, is developed.DOI: 10.11621/pir.2008.0004Pages: 48-54By: Ulanovsky, Alexey M.Themes: Philosophy of PsychologyKeywords: Phenomenology as a Style of Research and PracticeSome preliminariesSince the beginning phenomenology appeared in Husserl's works as a form of research-interrelation between sign, referents, meanings and structures of our experiences, ways of our everyday perception of things and work of consciousness, which provides coherence, meaningfulness and safeness of our experience in time. Unfortunately, the name of Husserl is referred more often in Western and Russian psychology in the contexts of highly philosophical debates - about destiny of science, relations between natural and human science, description and explanation, phenomenon and being. And to much less it is discussed that Husserl and his followers made very delicate and penetrating descriptive research of perception, thought, intuition, imagination, statement, symbolical representations, meaning, value, subjective time and other phenomena, which is interesting for psychology. The research that is the main achievement and a visiting card of phenomenology. Exactly this research, rather than original views and concepts of Husserl, on which evaluation of his works in psychology is usually based, attracted attention of many known psychologists at the beginning of the 20lh century. Husserl by himself saw in this research the main contribution of phenomenology to psychology.Phenomenological is the most characteristic feature of phenomenology as a trend. As Herbert Spiegelberg noted, it is factually the single place, where different adherents of the trend make agreement between each other (Spiegelberg, 1969). Adolf Reinach and Moris Merleau-Ponty said that phenomenology is first of all the of cognition, rather than system of views and truths (Reinach, 1969; Merleau-Ponty, 1962). It should be practiced and identified as a manner or style of thinking (Merleau-Ponty, 1962). Approach to phenomenology as a fixed conceptual system doesn't correspond with the original meaning of it and should give place to the approach to it as to a or methodology. In this regard many works about phenomenology suffer from the disadvantage of transforming it to strict theory, or conception.Variants of in psychologyThe concept phenomenological became firmly established in psychology already by 1920-30s. But on closer examination we can discern several different ways of treatment and use of it. Furthermore, it is still not clear and well founded why in this case we should talk exactly about method - if we take into account a little different requirements to the status of in psychology, than in philosophy. We will try to clarify this question. We discern six different ways of treatment and use of the in psychology. They differ between each other in their tasks, focus and procedures.1. The of clarifying ofphenomena of consciousness and concepts (Husserl, Pfender, Geiger, Scheler, Merleau-Ponty, and others). We can distinguish its initial variant as it was offered by Husserl and used traditionally in classical research. …
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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