Phenomenological Inquiry in Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Foundational Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introducing Existential-Phenomenological Psychology

      • Rolf von Eckartsberg

      Pages 3-20

   3. Existential-Phenomenological Research

      • Rolf von Eckartsberg

      Pages 21-61

   4. The Question of Reliability in Interpretive Psychological Research

      • Scott D. Churchill, Julie E. Lowery, Owen McNally, Aruna Rao

      Pages 63-85

   5. Human Subjectivity and the Law of the Threshold

      • Bernd Jager

      Pages 87-108

3. Existential Dimensions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-110

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   2. Being Angry Revealed as Self-Deceptive Protest

      • Constance T. Fischer

      Pages 111-122

   3. An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation of Being-Ashamed

      • Damian S. Vallelonga

      Pages 123-155

   4. Latin American Women’s Experience of Feeling Able to Move Toward and Accomplish a Meaningful and Challenging Goal

      • Tania Shertock

      Pages 157-174

   5. The Intentionality of Psychodiagnostic Seeing

      • Scott D. Churchill

      Pages 175-207

   6. Dissociative Women’s Experiences of Self-Cutting

      • Faith A. Robinson

      Pages 209-225

   7. Psychology of Forgiveness

      • Jan O. Rowe, Steen Halling

      Pages 227-246

   8. Women’s Psychospiritual Paths Before, During, and After Finding It Difficult to Pray to a Male God

      • Kathleen Mulrenin

      Pages 247-270

4. Transpersonal Dimensions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-272

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   2. Transpersonal Awareness

      • Ron Valle

      Pages 273-279

   3. Toward a Phenomenology of Synchronicity

      • D. Hanson, Jon Klimo

      Pages 281-307

   4. The Experience of Being Silent

      • Ourania Marcandonatou (Elite)

      Pages 309-320

   5. On the Experience of Being Unconditionally Loved

      • Craig Matsu-Pissot

      Pages 321-334

   6. On Being with Suffering

      • Patricia A. Qualls

      Pages 335-357

This fine new book, the third in a series, brings psychologists up to date on the advances of phenomenological research methods in illuminating the nature of human awareness and ex­ periences. In the more congenial and welcoming intellectual climate of the 1990s, phe­ nomenological methods have moved to the forefront of discourse on research methods that support and advocate an expanding view of science. In Valle and King (1978), phenome­ nological methods were presented as alternatives to behavioral methods. In Valle and Halling (1989), phenomenological methods were advanced to perspectives in psychology. This new volume is even less cautious, indeed bolder, in relation to conventional methods and epistemologies. By now, people knowledgeable about psychology, and most psycholo­ gists, have digested the criticisms directed against methods that operationalize, quantify, and often minimize human behavior. In bringing us up to date on the growing power of phe­ nomenological methods, this volume brings welcome coherence and integrity to an in­ creasingly harried science attempting to reenchant itself with meaning and depth, an endeavor artfully exemplified by phenomenological inquiries of the last several decades.

• awareness
• behavior
• human behavior
• phenomenology
• psychology
• science

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