Phenomenology and Psychological Research

by Amedeo Giorgi

Book Overview

This book is both a theoretical justification of a phenomenological and human scientific approach to psychological research and a presentation of findings in the areas of cognitive, clinical, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820701742
• ISBN13: 9780820701745
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Duquesne
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Cutting Edge Research Methodology

Dr. Giorgi et al. lay out the phenomenological approach in a very understandable way. Not only is the philosophical foundation explained well, the method is delineated step by step so that the novice can begin to apply it. The phenomenological method provides an approach that preserves the "voice" of the research participants while maintaining sufficient objective analysis in the process. The chapter authors provide examples of research in which the method was applied. I believe, "seeing is believing" when one reads a phenomenological psychological research report. Unlike the dominant quantitative research methods, one does not have to understand statistics and theory-laden psychological terminology. The phenomenological approach provides a descriptive psychology rather than and interpretive psychology wherein the veracity of its results is lain bare for review by the reader. In sum, the phenomenological methodology presented in this book provides a sound alternative to those research methods and philosophies that were invented for the physical sciences. For one to fully appreciate the contrast between this cutting edge research methodology and those dominating experimental psychology today, reading Dr. Giorgi's Psychology as a human Science a Phenomenologically Based Approach, published in 1970 by Harper and Row Publishers.