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This fine new book, the third in a series, brings psychologists up to date on the advances of phenomenological research methods in illuminating the nature of human awareness and ex periences. In the more congenial and welcoming intellectual climate of the 1990s, phe nomenological methods have moved to the forefront of discourse on research methods that support and advocate an expanding view of science. In Valle and King (1978), phenome nological methods were presented as alternatives to behavioral methods. In Valle and Halling (1989), phenomenological methods were advanced to perspectives in psychology. This new volume is even less cautious, indeed bolder, in relation to conventional methods and epistemologies. By now, people knowledgeable about psychology, and most psycholo gists, have digested the criticisms directed against methods that operationalize, quantify, and often minimize human behavior. In bringing us up to date on the growing power of phe nomenological methods, this volume brings welcome coherence and integrity to an in creasingly harried science attempting to reenchant itself with meaning and depth, an endeavor artfully exemplified by phenomenological inquiries of the last several decades.
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I. Foundational Issues.- 1. Introducing Existential-Phenomenological Psychology.- 2. Existential-Phenomenological Research.- 3. The Question of Reliability in Interpretive Psychological Research: A Comparison of Three Phenomenologically Based Protocol Analyses.- 4. Human Subjectivity and the Law of the Threshold: Phenomenological and Humanistic Perspectives.- II. Existential Dimensions.- 5. Being Angry Revealed as Self-Deceptive Protest: An Empirical Phenomenological Analysis.- 6. An Empirical-Phenomenological Investigation of Being-Ashamed.- 7. Latin American Women's Experience of Feeling Able to Move Toward and Accomplish a Meaningful and Challenging Goal.- 8. The Intentionality of Psychodiagnostic Seeing: A Phenomenological Investigation of Clinical Impression Formation.- 9. Dissociative Women's Experiences of Self-Cutting.- 10. Psychology of Forgiveness: Implications for Psychotherapy.- 11. Women's Psychospiritual Paths Before, During, and After Finding It Difficult to Pray to a Male God.- III. Transpersonal Dimensions.- 12. Transpersonal Awareness: Implications for Phenomenological Research.- 13. Toward a Phenomenology of Synchronicity.- 14. The Experience of Being Silent.- 15. On the Experience of Being Unconditionally Loved.- 16. On Being with Suffering.- 17. The Experience of Being with a Dying Person.- 18. The Experience of Feeling Grace in Voluntary Service to the Terminally III.- 19. On the Encounter with a Divine Presence during a Near-Death Experience: A Phenomenological Inquiry.- Name Index.
