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Sep 3rd, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
I recently posted a short discussion of what “the natural attitude” means in Husserl’s phenomenology. As I mentioned, the natural attitude is the perspective of everyday life. For Husserl the process he calls the phenomenological reduction is the means by which the phenomenologist frees himself from the reifications of the natural attitude, gaining a standpoint
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Tags: Applebaum, epoche, Gurwitsch, Husserl, reduction
Aug 29th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
This PowerPoint presentation was developed for the first meeting of a seminar introducing psychology students to phenomenological psychological research, and assumes no prior knowledge of Husserl or continental philosophy. The descriptive phenomenological research method itself is introduced in depth over the course of the semester–this presentation is a “first taste” of Husserlian terms for students. Naturally, I added
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Aug 18th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
This is the first in a series of our posts on central ideas in phenomenology—please add your observations, additions, or questions in the comments section! I’ll begin with what Husserl calls “the natural attitude.” In everyday life we see the objects of our experience such as physical objects, other people, and even ideas, as simply
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Jul 16th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
In August 2011 Amedeo Giorgi was interviewed at Saybrook’s graduate conference on themes related to his life’s work in phenomenological psychological research. The panel was comprised of four former doctoral students of Giorgi’s at Saybrook: Drs. Lisa K. Mastain, Adrienne Murphy, and Sophia Reinders, and was moderated by Marc Applebaum. This transcript was edited by
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Posted in Human Science |
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Tags: Giorgi, human science, Husserl, research
Jul 10th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
During the current global recession rising suicide rates have being witnessed across Europe; this is echoed by American data on increases in suicides and depression. I invited philosopher Susi Ferrarello to reflect upon the rash of suicides amid Italy’s social crisis. –Marc Applebaum Phenomenology and the Representation of Personal Identity I am writing and working in a language
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Tags: cultural psychology, Ferrarello, Husserl, intersubjectivity, Merleau-Ponty, postmodernism
Jul 3rd, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
Sebastian Elsaesser is a psychotherapist specializing in process work, psychosomatic medicine, and altered states of consciousness. He maintains an active practice in Stuttgart, Germany and in Brazil. For years he has collaborated with Peter Frör in developing a program in the Intensive Care Units of Klinikum der Universität München, one of Germany’s most technically sophisticated
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Posted in Feature |
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Tags: embodiment, human science, psychotherapy, research
Jun 27th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
Here is the presentation I gave in Montreal at the 31st International Human Science Research Conference. My aim was to encourage dialogue between interpretive and descriptive researchers, and clinicians whose work is informed by these perspectives. My premise about the complementarity of description and interpretation is based on Jitendra Nath Mohanty’s work on Husserl’s phenomenology.
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Posted in Praxis |
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Tags: Applebaum, Giorgi, hermeneutics, Husserl, research
Jun 8th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
Perhaps the most exciting thing I have found in becoming a phenomenological psychologist is how fundamentally important it is to value the subjective psychological perspective when seeking to understand people (Giorgi & Giorgi, 2003). Television “reality shows” have become popular because they provide a “fly on the wall” perspective of dramatic events in a world
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Tags: Broomé, Giorgi, human science, research
Jun 6th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
Empathy “is taken to disclose rather than establish intersubjectivity” (Zahavi, 2001, p. 154). 2012 marks the 10th year of my phenomenologically-based empathy training (Englander, submitted) and what better way to spend an anniversary than bringing a practical application of descriptive phenomenological psychology to the corporate world. In 2012 I was asked to pilot my empathy training with a
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Posted in Human Science |
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Tags: Englander, intersubjectivity, Organizational phenomenology
Apr 26th, 2012 |
By Marc Applebaum
Husserl’s phenomenology is epitomized in his call for a return “back to the things themselves,” “Zurück zu den Sachen selbst.” We view this “return” as a shared project. The return, in other words, is intersubjective and not solipsistic: we return to the things in order to dialogue together about them together
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Tags: Giorgi, Husserl, intersubjectivity