Chapter
The Nature of Phenomenological Interviewing
Why Objective Interviewing Is Not Objective
1. Value-free, objective questioning.
2. Beginning the interview with nonthreatening impersonal questions.
3. Nonjudgmental responsiveness
Can Interview Data Be Trusted?
Interpreting Qualitative Data
Structural- Corroborative/Empathic- Verstehen
Phenomenological Interpretation
The Issue of Integrative Validity
Conclusion Concerning Validity
PART II Grounding the World of Everyday Life
3 The Body as Lived Themes in the Human Experience of the Human Body
Existential Phenomenology
The Body and Its Image: Major Research Findings
Developmental Considerations
Neurology and the Phantom Limb
Body Image and Personality
The Present Research Program
Situations in Which the Body Was Figural
Thematic Aspects of Bodily Experience
Appearance and expression of self
Activity/vitality/instrument/object
Vitality/expression of self
Activity/vitality/expression of self
Activity/vitality expression of self
Instrument/expression of self
Instrument/object/expression of self
Object/appearance/expression of self
Object/expression of self/vitality
Object/expression of self/vitality/activity
Unique Characteristics of Particular Participants
Experiences of Engagement
Experiences of Corporeality
Experiences of Interpersonal Meaning
Experiential Themes and Theories of the Body
Experiences of Engagement
Experiences of Corporeality
Experiences of Interpersonal Meaning
Psychological Research on Time
Temporal Dimensions of Behavior
Cognitive Functions Associated with Time
Subjective Representations of Time
Philosophical Analyses of Time
The Present Research Program
Themes in the Experience of Time
1. Tempo and having in time.
2. Tempo and doing in time.
3. Tempo and becoming in time.
Individual and Group Differences in Themes
General Discussion of Themes
Relationship to Philosophical Analyses of Time
Relationship to Psychological Research on Time
Relevance for Clinical Issues
5 The Human Experience of Other People
The Psychoanalytic Perspective
Empirical Research on Attachment Behaviors in Children
The Phenomenological Perspective
The Existential Perspective
The Present Research Program
Situations in Which Other People Are Figural
Themes in the Experience of Other People
Experiences in Which More Than One Aspect Is Figural
Experiences in Which all Three Themes Are Figural
Relationship to Prior Theories of People
PART III Selected Topics from Everyday Life
Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aloneness
Loneliness and Depression
Sociological Perspectives on Aloneness
Isolation of the Nuclear Family
Existential Perspectives on Aloneness
Aloneness and the Human Condition
Phenomenological Perspectives on Aloneness
The Present Research Program
The Theme of Vulnerability
Interrelationships of Themes and Situations
Interrelationships among Thematic Structures
The Distribution of Themes Across Participants
Implications of Present Findings
Relationships Between Psychopathology and Themes of Aloneness
Implications for Psychological Treatment
7 Making Amends The Psychology of Reparation
Contexts for Studying Reparation
Retribution and Restitution in the Legal Context
Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reparation in the Psychological Context
The Present Program of Researc
Grounds for Experiencing Breach
Relationship of Grounds to the Experiences of Breach
Coming to Terms with Breach
1. The object of repairing.
2. The action of repairing.
3. The mutuality of repairing.
5. The experience of reparation.
Implications of Present Findings
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Love
Adult Development and Human Love
Humanistic-Existential Views of Love
The Social Psychology of Love and Attraction
The Present Research Program
Thematic Aspects of the Experience of Loving
Implications and Conclusions
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Love
Relation of Present Findings to Social-Psychological Research
Loving and the Life Cycle
The Concept and Experience of Self
Anxiety and Self in Psychoanalytic Theory
Anxiety and Self in Existentialism
The Present Program of Research
Implications of Present Results
10 The Meanings of Death in the Context of Life
Religious Orientations Toward Death
Psychoanalytic Views of Death
Existential Views of Death
Empirical Research on Death
The Present Program of Research
Modes of Experiencing the Meanings of Death
Themes Characterizing the Focal Experience of Death
Relationship to Religious Thought
Relationship to Psychoanalytic Thought
Relationship to Existential Thought
Relationship to Empirical Research
Implications for Treatment
PART IV The Phenomenology of Everyday Life
11 Toward an Empirical Existential- Phenomenological Psychology
Human Behavior and Human Experience
Existential Phenomenology and the Question of Method
A Small (Hermeneutic) Caveat Concerning Method
The Perspectival Meanings of Reductionism
Experience Revisited: Some New Descriptions and Relationships
Some Further Thematic Similarities