Journal of Phenomenological Psychology articles from September 2008

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology archives from September 2008

The nature and role of phenomenological psychology in Alfred Schutz.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Abstract The essay reviews how phenomenological psychology can draw on Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology in order to clarify the foundations of the cultural sciences and then explicates the theory of this psychology implicit in...

The phenomenology of koan meditation in Zen Buddhism.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Abstract Zen students described their experiences when working with koans, and a phenomenological method was used to identify the structure of those experiences. Zen koans are statements or stories developed in China and Japan by Zen...

Toward a phenomenological psychology of art appreciation.(Report)
September 22, 2008... Abstract Experiences with art have been of longstanding concern for phenomenologists, yet the psychological question of the appearing of arc appreciation has not been addressed. This article attends to this lack, exemplifying the merits of...

Trauma and human existence.(Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Stolorow, R.D. (2007). Trauma and human existence: Autobiographical, psychoanalytic, and philosophical reflections. New York: The Analytic Press / Taylor and Francis, 62 pages, ISBNO-88163-467-0 (Paper). Reviewed by Mufid James Hannush,...

On the Way to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Emad, Parvis (2007). On the Way to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy. Madison, Wi: The University of Wisconsin Press, xvii t 236 pages, ISBN 0-299-22220-9, $55.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Frank Schalow, University of New Orleans,...

Laws of seeing.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Metzger, W. (2006). Laws of seeing (L. Spillmann, S. Lehar, M. Stromeyer, & M. Wertheimer, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, xxv + 203 pp. (hardcover) (ISBN: 0-262-13467-5) (Original work published 1936) $48.00 Reviewed by Thomas F....

The World At A Glance.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Edward S. Casey. (2007). The World At A Glance. Bloomington & Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. 491pp., ISBN 13 978-0-253-21897-1. $ 34.95. (paperback). Reviewed by Ingo Farin, University of Tasmania, Australia. Casey's book is a...

Todres, L. (2007). Embodied inquiry.(Embodied Inquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for Research)(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Todres, L. (2007). Embodied inquiry;: Phenomenological touchstones for research, psychotherapy and spirituality. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-230-51775-7, $ 74.95 (hardcover). Reviewed by Steen Hailing, Professor...

Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Brothers, Doris (2008). Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis. New York: The Analytic Press / Taylor and Francis group, 223 pages, ISBN 0-13:978-0-88163-478-5 (softcover). Reviewed by Edwin L. Hersch, author of...

Wronka, J. Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Wronka, J. Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Profissions. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008, xi + 335 pp., S39.95(Paper). This book represents an effort to center issues...

Books received.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2008... Ahlstrom, K. (2007). Constructive analysis: A. study in episternalogical methodology. Goteborg, Sweden: Goteborg University Press, 308 pages, ISBN 978-91-7346-603-5 (Paper). Brothers, D. (2008). Toward a psychology of uncertainty:...