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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 121-141Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2013.807899
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eidetic analysis; existential analysis; lifeworld; methodology; phenomenology
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Phenomenologists seeking to explicate lived experience need above all to do justice to the phenomenon under study; research methods need to be responsive to the phenomenon, towards capturing something of its is-ness. This article aims to clarify some processes involved in doing phenomenological analysis, whatever the variant of phenomenology. A phenomenological sensibility is suggested rather than offering cookbook guidelines. Four key processes are identified: seeing afresh, dwelling, explicating, and languaging. Specific examples of research and writing are provided, with special attention to the principal phenomenological sources used in psychology: the descriptive phenomenology of Giorgi and Wertz, van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology, and Smith et al.'s Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The article ends with my personal top ten tips for novice researchers.
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