Journal of Phenomenological Psychology articles from March 2008

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology archives from March 2008

A dance between the reduction and reflexivity: explicating the "phenomenological psychological attitude".(Report)
March 22, 2008... Abstract This article explores the nature of "the phenomenological attitude," which is understood as the process of retaining a wonder and openness to the world while reflexively restraining pre-understandings, as it applies to...

Concerning a serious misunderstanding of the essence of the phenomenological method in psychology.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Abstract In an earlier article, Edwards (1991) tried to establish that the Duquesne Phenomenological Research Method (DPRM) was simply a particular type of Case Study research method (CSRM) and he also reproached users of the DPRM for not...

Conceptualizing health and illness.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Abstract This article is focused on the notions of health and illness, as they appear in the context of philosophical reflections on finitude and contingency of human existence. Criticizing Heidegger's approach to health and illness which...

Desire for higher education in first-generation hispanic college students enrolled in an academic support program: a phenomenological analysis.(Report)
March 22, 2008... Abstract Numerous empirical studies have been conducted to examine first-generation college students, those individuals whose parents have not attended college. Their personality characteristics, cognitive development, academic...

Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Fink, B. (2007). Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 301 pp., ISBN 978-0-393-70508-9, $35.00 (hardcover). Lacan's psychoanalytic theory has often...

The Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Zelazo, P. D., Moscovitch, M., & Thompson, E. Eds. (2007). Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness. Cambridgc: Cambridge UniversityPress. The problem of consciousness was once considered to be the select purview of phenomenologists and...

The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Rojcewicz, Richard (2006). The Gods and Technology: A Reading of Heidegger. Albany, NY: New York: State University of New York Press, viii + 248 pages, ISBN 0-7914-6642-6, $24.95. If decades from now someone were to write an intellectual...

Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... The relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis has always been a tortured one, going all the way back to Freud's relatively late essay, "The Question of a Weltanschauung (1933)," as to the irrelevance of philosophical thinking in the...