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Review
. 2016 Mar 9:11:30682.
doi: 10.3402/qhw.v11.30682. eCollection 2016.

The phenomenological method in qualitative psychology and psychiatry

Magnus Englander  1
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Review

The phenomenological method in qualitative psychology and psychiatry

Magnus Englander. Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. .

Abstract

This article will closely examine the phenomenological method as applied to qualitative inquiry in psychology and psychiatry. In a critical comparison between Amedeo Giorgi's and Larry Davidson's qualitatively methods, conclusions were drawn with regard to how different kinds of qualitative inquiry are possible while remaining faithful to Husserlian philosophical foundations. Utilizing Lester Embree's recent articulation of how Husserl's method of the epochē can be disclosed as specific to a discipline, varieties of these two qualitative methods were seen in their relation to the original scientific aim instigated by the developer.

Keywords: Davidson; Giorgi; epochē; qualitative methods.

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