Saybrook University

About: Saybrook University is a education organization based out in San Francisco, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Creativity & Humanistic psychology. The organization has 236 authors who have published 647 publications receiving 16635 citations. The organization is also known as: Humanistic Psychology Institute & Saybrook Institute.

The Theory, Practice, and Evaluation of the Phenomenological Method as a Qualitative Research Procedure

Abstract: This article points out the criteria necessary in order for a qualitative scientific method to qualify itself as phenomenological in a descriptive Husserlian sense. One would have to employ (1) description (2) within the attitude of the phenomenological reduction, and (3) seek the most invariant meanings for a context. The results of this analysis are used to critique an article by Klein and Westcott (1994), that presents a typology of the development of the phenomenological psychological method.

The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A Modified Husserlian Approach

Abstract: Conceptual Framework The Qualitative Perspective in Researching Psychological Phenomena The research Process Scientific Phenomenological Method & Its Philosophical Context The Phenomenological Method The Application of the Method Index

The Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method

Abstract: The author explains that his background was in experimental psychology but that he wanted to study the whole person and not fragmented psychological processes. He also desired a non-reductionistic method for studying humans. Fortunately he came across the work of Edmund Husserl and discovered in the latter’s thought a way of researching humans that met the criteria he was seeking. Eventually he developed a phenomenological method for researching humans in a psychological way based upon the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. This article briefly describes the method.

Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence

Abstract: Contributors Acknowledgments I. Conceptual and Methodological Considerations Introduction: Anomalous Experiences in Perspective, Etzel Cardena, Steven Jay Lynn, and Stanley Krippner Researching States of Consciousness and Anomalous Experiences, Etzel Cardena and Ronald J. Pekala Anomalous Experiences, Peculiarity, and Psychopathology, John G. Kerns, Nicole Karcher, Chitra Raghavan, and Howard Berenbaum II. Anomalous Experiences Synesthesia: A Teeming Multiplicity, Lawrence E. Marks Hallucinatory Experiences, Richard P. Bentall Lucid Dreaming: Paradoxes of Dreaming Consciousness, Stephen LaBerge Anomalous Self and Identity Experiences, Etzel Cardena and Carlos S. Alvarado Alien Abduction Experiences, Stuart Appelle, Steven Jay Lynn, Leonard Newman, and Anne Malaktaris Psi-Related Experiences, Caroline Watt and Ian Tierney Anomalous Healing Experiences, Stanley Krippner and Jeanne Achterberg Past-Life Experiences, Antonia Mills and Jim B. Tucker Near-Death Experiences, Bruce Greyson Mystical Experience, David M. Wulff Anomalous Experiences: An Integrative Summary, Etzel Cardena, Stanley Krippner, and Steven Jay Lynn Index

The Phenomenological Movement and Research in the Human Sciences

Abstract: Phenomenology, as a modern movement in philosophy, has focused discussion upon human subjectivity in new and critically important ways. Because human participants can relate intentionally to objects of the world consciousness manifests relationships to things and others that are other than cause-effect relationships. Consequently, the concepts and practices of the natural sciences are not the best model for the human sciences to follow. Husserl in his philosophy introduced a method for a more adequate approach to the achievements of consciousness and when properly modified the phenomenological method can serve as the basis for the human sciences, including nursing. The use of such a method can make the qualitative analysis of phenomena rigorous and scientific.