Journal of Phenomenological Psychology articles from September 2000

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology archives from September 2000

SCHREBER'S SOUL-VOLUPTUOUSNESS: MYSTICISM, MADNESS AND THE FEMININE IN SCHREBER'S MEMOIRS.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT Freud's 1911 case study based on Schreber's (1903) Memoirs of My Nervous Illness provides the investigator with the opportunity to reexamine Freud's interpretation through a return to the original data Freud used. This study...

A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF STUDENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF BIOLOGY IN A SWEDISH COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL.
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT A text written by a student in a Swedish comprehensive school, during a Biology test, is analyzed using a method based on Husserl's transcendental phenomenology. The method is presented in the article. The analysis results in an...

THE STUDY OF LIFE BOREDOM [1].
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT This article extends the study of a phenomenological investigation (Bargdill, R. W., 2000) in which six participants wrote protocols and gave interviews describing the experience of being bored with their lives. This study found...

PHENOMENOLOGICAL REFLECTION AND TIME IN VIKTOR FRANKL'S EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY.
September 22, 2000... ABSTRACT Utilizing the definition of phenomenology originally presented by Edith Stein, it is possible to understand Viktor Frankl's existential psychotherapy as falling well within the phenomenological movement. In this article, Frankl's...

Introduction to Phenomenology.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Robert Sokolowski, Introduction to Phenomenology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 238pp + ix, $49.95 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). There has finally appeared a straightforward introductory presentation of philosophical...

Ways of the Desert: Becoming Holy through Difficult Times.(Review)
September 22, 2000... William F. Kraft, Ways of the Desert: Becoming Holy through Difficult Times. New York: Haworth, 2000, xii + 166 pp., $19.95 (paper). "Ways of the Desert", by William F. Kraft, is a much needed text. In our society's consciousness-raising on...

Pursuing Perfection: People, Groups, and Society.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Leonard W. Doob, Pursuing Perfection: People, Groups, and Society. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999, vii + 211 pp., $59.95 (hard cover). Leonard Doob has had an illustrious career in attempting to apply the finding of social science...

Chemicals for the Mind: Psychopharmacology and Human Consciousness.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ernest Keen, Chemicals for the Mind: Psychopharmacology and Human Consciousness. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000, xviii + 142 pp., $59.95 (cloth) ISBN 0-275-96775-1 Sometimes when one finishes an academic work that eventually finds its way...