Resource type: Article
Publication information: Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1994.
Short description: This two-part article introduces phenomenology as a foundational method for existential-phenomenological counseling and psychotherapy. Part 1 explains phenomenology as a disciplined way of investigating lived experience without forcing it into prior assumptions or causal explanations. It situates the approach within Husserl, Brentano, and Heidegger, and shows how phenomenology challenges conventional scientific models when the subject is human experience. The article emphasizes intentionality, intersubjectivity, and the need to bracket assumptions in order to describe experience more faithfully. It is a rigorous conceptual introduction rather than a popular overview, and it lays out why phenomenology matters for psychological knowledge and research.
RelEx relevance: For RelEx, this article is useful because it gives a direct methodological grounding for existential and phenomenological thinking. It supports the site’s focus on psychotherapy, meaning-making, and the careful study of lived experience, while also linking the library to a key intellectual tradition behind several of its core themes.
Suggested keywords: phenomenology, psychotherapy, existence, Ian R. Owen
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