Journal of Phenomenological Psychology articles

Recent articles from Journal of Phenomenological Psychology

A phenomenological analysis of the experience of pivotal moments in therapy as defined by clients.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Abstract This study was concerned with the clarification of the experience of pivotal moments in therapy. By pivotal moment is understood an event within the therapeutic process that leads to enduring change experienced as an important improvement in the life-experience of the client....

Identity, narrative, and lived experience after postmodernity: between multiplicity and continuity.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Abstract The concept of multiplicity describes the fluid nature of identity and experience in the wake of postmodernity. Yet the question of how we negotiate and maintain our identities, despite our multiplicities, requires phenomenological clarification. I suggest that recognition of...

The importance of securing the psychologically impalpable: the vicissitudes of the perception of expressiveness*.(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Abstract Historically, when psychology broke away from a philosophical mode of scholarship it strove to become a natural science. This meant that it largely imitated the concepts and practices of the natural sciences which included the use of abstract terms to designate many of its phenomena...

Deictic abstractions: on the occasional references to ideal objectivities producible with the words "this" and "thus"(*).(Essay)
March 22, 2011... Abstract This essay introduces the concept of deictic abstraction (deictic ideation), taking as a point of departure Husserl's prototypical but insufficient description of the act of ideation in which a shade of color comes to givenness as an ideal object, i.e., a non-individual or abstract...

Editor's note.(Column)
March 22, 2011... The Journal of Phenomenological Psychology was founded in 1970 by Amedeo P. Giorgi. Its inauguration took place vis-a-vis an American mainstream psychology whose ideological heritage was that of behaviorist psychology. Cognitive psychology was in the wings at the time; eventually, it came to...