The Phenomenology of Everyday Life :Empirical Investigations of Human Experience

Publication subTitle :Empirical Investigations of Human Experience

Author: Howard R. Pollio; Tracy B. Henley; Craig J. Thompson  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 1997

E-ISBN: 9781139243452

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521462051

Subject: B84-06 心理学派别及其研究

Keyword: 心理学

Language: ENG

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The Phenomenology of Everyday Life

Description

The Phenomenology of Everyday Life presents results from a rigorous qualitative approach to the psychological study of everyday human activities and experiences. This book does not replace scientific observation with humanistic analysis, but provides an additional perspective on significant human questions. The qualitative approach this book employs is grounded in the philosophical traditions of existentialism and phenomenology, which use dialogue as their major method of inquiry. These traditions are especially well adapted to encompass and describe human events and activities. In addition, such events can be properly investigated only on the basis of a method sensitive enough to articulate the nuances of human experience and reflection. In this latter regard, it is important to note that insights deriving from literature and the humanities are equally revealing of the human world as those from experimental psychology, biology or medicine.

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

Categorical/Hermeneutic

Nomothetic/Idiographic

Structural- Corroborative/Empathic- Verstehen

Phenomenological Interpretation

Bracketing

The Hermeneutic Circle

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

Approaches to the Body

Psychoanalysis

Gestalt Psychology

Existential Phenomenology

The Body and Its Image: Major Research Findings

Developmental Considerations

Neurology and the Phantom Limb

Body Image and Anorexia

Body Image and Personality

The Present Research Program

Situations in Which the Body Was Figural

Categories

Explanations

Thematic Aspects of Bodily Experience

Vitality

Activity

Vitality and activity

Instrument

Object

Instrument and object

Appearance

Expression of self

Appearance and expression of self

Activity/object

Activity/instrument

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

Discussion of Themes

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

4 Time in Human Life

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

Categories

Explanations

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

6 Feeling Alone

Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aloneness

Loneliness and Depression

Sociological Perspectives on Aloneness

Geographic Mobili

Isolation of the Nuclear Family

Individualism

Existential Perspectives on Aloneness

Aloneness and the Human Condition

Phenomenological Perspectives on Aloneness

Structure 1

Structure 2

Structure 3

Structure 4

Structure 5

Structure 6

Structure 7

Structure 8

Structure 9

The Present Research Program

The Theme of Missing

The Theme of Barrier

The Theme of Vulnerability

The Theme of Freedom

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

The Religious Context

Retribution and Restitution in the Legal Context

Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reparation in the Psychological Context

The Present Program of Researc

Grounds for Experiencing Breach

Experiencing the 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.

4. Reparations that fail

5. The experience of reparation.

Implications of Present Findings

Reparation as Dialogue

8 Love and Loving

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Love

Love and Gender

Adult Development and Human Love

Humanistic-Existential Views of Love

The Social Psychology of Love and Attraction

The Present Research Program

In Love Versus Loving

Thematic Aspects of the Experience of Loving

Gender Differences

Implications and Conclusions

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Love

Gender and Loving

Relation of Present Findings to Social-Psychological Research

Loving and the Life Cycle

9 Falling Apart

The Concept and Experience of Self

Anxiety and Self in Psychoanalytic Theory

Anxiety and Self in Existentialism

The Present Program of Research

Setting

Focal Experience

Resolution

Everyday Experience

Participant Feedback

Implications of Present Results

10 The Meanings of Death in the Context of Life

Views of Death

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

General Discussion

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

Intentionality

Temporality

Contextuality

Some Further Thematic Similarities

References

Name Index

Subject Index

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