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    Extensions in human science methodology
    Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 6 (2): 132-132. 1986.
    This article provides a brief review of Saybrook Review, Vol 6, No. 1, Spring 1986. Special issue: Extensions in Human Science Methodology guest edited by Donald E. Polkinghorne. This issue contains articles written by four of the faculty of the Saybrook Institute, all of which examine "the consequences of extending the criteria of science beyond the traditional objectivism-relativism dichotomy." Polkinghorne's lead article is a compelling and clear historical characterization of the place of hu…Read more
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    Bodily Reflective Modes: A Phenomenological Method for Psychology (review)
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 19 (2): 206-213. 1988.
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    Editorial: Life Phenomenology--Movement, Affect and Language
    with Stephen Smith, Tone Saevi, and Rebecca Lloyd
    Phenomenology and Practice 11 (1): 1-4. 2017.
    The “life phenomenology” theme of the 35th International Human Science Research Conference challenged participants to consider pressing questions of life and of living with others of our own and other-than-human kinds. The theme was addressed by keynote speakers Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Ralph Acampora and David Abram who invoked a motile, affective and linguistic awareness of how we might dwell actively and ethically amongst human communities and with the many life forms we encounter in the wide…Read more
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    Essentials of existential phenomenological research
    American Psychological Association. 2021.
    The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data. In this book, Scott D. Churchill introduces readers to existential phenomenological research, an approach that seeks an in-depth, embodied understanding of subjective human existence that reflects a person's values, pur…Read more
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    The Emergence of Phenomenological Psychology in the United States
    with Christopher M. Aanstoos and James Morley
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 52 (2): 218-274. 2021.
    This essay strives to bring together the institutional history of phenomenological psychology within the American academy from the middle of the 20th century to the current moment. Although phenomenological psychology has always been a dynamically international and interdisciplinary movement, the scope of this essay is limited to the different ways in which this new field expressed itself in certain psychology departments and educational institutions across the United States. After presenting th…Read more
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    Daseinsanalysis: In defense of the ontological difference
    Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 9 (1): 51-56. 1989.
    Reviews the special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist, Psychotherapy for freedom: The daseinsanalytic way in psychology and psychotherapy edited by Erik Craig . The editor brings together a uniquely developed collection of essays, seminars, and interviews delving into foundational as well as clinically-oriented issues regarding the application of Martin Heidegger's philosophy to the fields of psychiatry and psychotherapy. Craig's edition exhibits a cohesiveness not often found in edited volum…Read more
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    In Memoriam: Lester Eugene Embree
    Phenomenology and Practice 12 (1): 75-78. 2018.
    Lester Eugene Embree
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    Reasons, causes, and motives: Psychology’s illusive explanations of behavior
    Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 11 (1): 24-34. 1991.
    The efforts of psychologists as well as laypersons to identify causes and motives of behavior is examined from an existential-phenomenological perspective. The claim made by modern psychology that its epistemological ground consists of an objectively given realm of “facts” is called into question. Psychological explanation is presented as a system of discourse that has its own psychological “motivation.” The traditional concepts of “conditions,” “causes,” and “motives” are critiqued and alternat…Read more
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    Phenomenology has remained a sheltering place for those who would seek to understand not only their own “first person” experiences but also the first person experiences of others. Recent publications by renowned scholars within the field have clarified and extended our possibilities of access to “first person” experience by means of perception (Lingis, 2007) and reflection (Zahavi, 2005). Teaching phenomenology remains a challenge, however, because one must find ways of communicating to the stud…Read more
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    Chemicals for the Mind: Psychopharmacology and Human Consciousness, by Ernest Keen
    Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 31 (2): 239-247. 2000.
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    Humanistic psychology as "the other": The marginalization of dissident voices within academic institutions
    Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 17 (2): 137-149. 1997.
    Explores both the place and displacement of humanistic psychology within institutional contexts ranging from private liberal arts colleges to professional organizations like the American Psychological Association. First, from the perspective of social constructionism, we present the function and marginalization of humanistic psychologists within American academic psychology. Next we consider, from the perspective of A. Schutz's social phenomenology, humanistic psychology's place within academic …Read more
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    Review of Reconsidering psychology: Perspectives from Continental philosophy (review)
    Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 15 (2): 186-198. 1994.
    Reviews the book, Reconsidering psychology: Perspectives from Continental philosophy edited by James E. Faulconer and Richard N. Williams . Reconsidering Psychology: Perspectives from Continental Philosophy, which raises some new issues, takes a look at some old issues from fresh perspectives, and examines avenues of Continental philosophy and psychology that have not yet received adequate attention. This is a remarkable text that not only takes the reader on a journey through new and exciting i…Read more
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    Empathy, Intercorporeality, and the Call to Compassion (review)
    Society and Animals 18 (2): 219-225. 2010.
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    Reasons, causes, and motives: Psychology’s illusive explanations of behavior
    Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 11 (1): 24-34. 1991.
    The efforts of psychologists as well as laypersons to identify causes and motives of behavior is examined from an existential-phenomenological perspective. The claim made by modern psychology that its epistemological ground consists of an objectively given realm of “facts” is called into question. Psychological explanation is presented as a system of discourse that has its own psychological “motivation.” The traditional concepts of “conditions,” “causes,” and “motives” are critiqued and alternat…Read more
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    Encountering the animal other: Reflections on moments of empathic seeing
    Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology: Methodology: Special Edition 6. 2006.
    The ultimate challenge for psychology as a human science inheres in accessing the experience of the other. In general, the field of psychology has perpetuated the epistemological dualism of distinguishing between the realm accessible by external perception and the realm accessible by inner perception, and hence between the subjective and the objective , regarding the "first person" perspective as a legitimate means of access only to one's own private experience, while insisting that all others' …Read more
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    The problem of narrative validity is discussed in reference to psychologists' criticisms of verbal report data and in dialogue with Jean-Paul Sartre's understanding of self-knowledge in general and of self-deception in particular. Sartre's notion of "purifying reflection" is invoked as a way of seeing through the distortions and deceptions inherent in narrative accounts of lived experience. Excerpts from empirically-based phenomenological investigations of desire and sexual compliance will be us…Read more
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