The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A Modified Husserlian Approach

By Amedeo Giorgi. 2009

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Citations in the corpus

• Tourism and Existential Transformation: An Empirical Investigation (2017, unknown): “A general structure of the phenomenon of interest is the first step in result presentation and constitutes the foundational finding in descriptive phenomenology (Giorgi 2009).”
• Qualitative Inquiry in the History of Psychology (2014, unknown): “…of which survived World War II in Europe: Gestalt psychology, Wilhelm Stern’s personalistic psychology, Felix Krüger’s Ganzheitpsycologie (integral or holistic psychology), David Katz’s phenomenological school, and Edward Spanger’s Verstehenpsychologie (psychology of understanding; Giorgi, 2009).”
• The Replication Crisis in Psychology: An Overview for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (2019, unknown): “Theories rooted in phenomenology (Giorgi, 2009), hermeneutics (Messer, Sass, & Woolfolk, 1988), critical theory (Teo, 2015), and feminist epistemology (Longino, 1987), to name just a few, offer radical alternatives that upend and replace the ontological and epistemological commitments of…”
• Investigating modes of being in the world: an introduction to Phenomenologically grounded qualitative research (2021, unknown): “Both Amedeo Giorgi (2010) and Max van Manen (2017) have questioned the philosophical foundations of Jonathan Smith’s Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), one of the most popular phenomenological approaches to qualitative research today.”
• Phenomenological Psychological Research as Science (2012, unknown): “(p. 13) Giorgi (2009) notes that from a phenomenological perspective “interpretation” means “bringing in a non-given factor (such as hypothesis, theory, assumption) to help account for the essential presence” (p. 78).”
• The Interview: Data Collection in Descriptive Phenomenological Human Scientific Research* (2012, unknown): “Likewise it is essential to understand that one needs to adopt a diferent strategy when doing science in contrast to doing philosophy (Giorgi, 1997, 2006, 2009).”
• The Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method (2012, unknown): “(Examples of the application of this method can be found in Giorgi, 1985; Giorgi & Giorgi, 2003; Giorgi & Giorgi, 2008; and Giorgi, 2009.)”
• Systematic text condensation: A strategy for qualitative analysis (2012, unknown): “investigate objects presenting themselves to consciousness [7,8].”
• What triggers imposter phenomenon among academic faculty? A critical incident study exploring antecedents, coping, and development opportunities (2017, unknown): “Because an assumption of descriptive phenomenology is a certain level of researcher objectivity when describing the data (Giorgi 2009), the use of bracketing and follow-up”
• Sampling in Qualitative Research: Insights from an Overview of the Methods Literature (2015, unknown): “With the exception of Cohen (2000), the phenomenologists reviewed make no mention of the timing of sampling decisions (Colaizzi, 1978; Giorgi, 2009; van Manen, 1997).”
• Describing Populations and Samples in Doctoral Student Research (2021, unknown): “Giorgi (2006) describes the theme, or central focus, of the descriptive phenomenological investigation as the object – the event that is taken up by the experiencer, which may also be described as the lived experience (Dieumegard et al., 2019).”
• Qualitative content analysis: theoretical foundation, basic procedures and software solution (2014, unknown): “Phenomenological analysis has been developed in psychology (Giorgi, 2009) originating from philosophy (Husserl, Heidegger).”
• Husserlian Descriptive Phenomenology: A review of intentionality, reduction and the natural attitude (2017, unknown): “In other words, although the objective nature of the intentional act may not entirely exist concretely, it has meaning and with it a sense of being in an individual’s consciousness that forms understanding and experience within their own unique life-world.[25] Instead Husserl no longer viewed intent”
• Engaging Phenomenological Analysis (2014, unknown): “Giorgi, in his descriptive phenomenology, argues for abstaining from Husserl’s transcendental realm and staying with a modified form he calls the “scientific phenomenological reduction,” expanding Husserl’s “psychological phenomenological reduction” to include all human scientists (Giorgi 2009).”
• Recommendations for Designing and Reviewing Qualitative Research in Psychology: Promoting Methodological Integrity (2017, unknown): “Procedures developed in qualitative traditions include the use of bracketing (Giorgi, 2009; Wertz, 2005), in which researchers set aside ideas that might interfere with or inappropriately guide data collection.”
• The qualitative revolution and psychology: Science, politics, and ethics. (2011, unknown): “…realities are different kinds of being and therefore require different ways of knowing through Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology; in many German schools of psychology (Giorgi, 2009); and in the existential, hermeneutic, linguistic, constructionist, and narrative turns in the 20th century.”
• Parenting experiences in elite youth football: a phenomenological study (2014, unknown): “731 Giorgi, A., & Giorgi, B. (2008a).”