{"title":"Consciousness, Being and Life: Phenomenological Approaches to Mindfulness","authors":"M. Bitbol","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341360","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000A phenomenological view of contemplative disciplines is presented. However, studying mindfulness by phenomenology is at odds with both neurobiological and anthropological approaches. It involves the first-person standpoint, the openness of being-in-the-world, the umwelt of the meditator, instead of assessing her neural processes and behaviors from a neutral, distanced, third-person standpoint. It then turns out that phenomenology cannot produce a discourse about mindfulness. Phenomenology rather induces a cross-fertilization between the state of mindfulness and its own methods of mental cultivation. A comparison between the epochè, the phenomenological reduction, and the practice of mindfulness, is then undertaken.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"50 1","pages":"127-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45606246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is It Like to Self-Rescue from a Building Collapse as a Firefighter: a Phenomenological Inquiry","authors":"Rodger E. Broomé, Eric J. Russell","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341363","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This descriptive scientific-phenomenological study set forth to discover what is like to survive a building collapse as a firefighter. The participants of the study were 3 uniformed and sworn professional firefighters performing interior operations at a commercial building structure fire. The 3 participants all become trapped and had to self-rescue as a result of a structural collapse. The data collected from the participant interviews was analyzed and transformed so as to form the structure of the study.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"50 1","pages":"225-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64999086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phenomenological Bioethics: Medical Technologies, Human Suffering, and the Meaning of Being Alive, written by Fredrik Svenaeus","authors":"D. M. Larsson","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341365","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"50 1","pages":"259-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44550316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Husserl’s Natural Attitude to Understand the Change Process within Cognitive Therapy","authors":"C. Hamblet","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341362","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The following paper argues that Husserl’s description of the natural attitude can be used as an alternative to Beck’s cognitive therapy’s understanding of the change process and the perpetuation of an emotional disorder. Conversely this also provides further insight into the natural attitude. Specifically the works of Sebastian Luft and Alfred Schutz are referred to as a means of developing what is termed by the paper as the universalising attitude. The paper extrapolates the incidental, yet significant, phenomenological structures within CBT’s process of guided discovery to support its hypothesis that the change process can be understood as the patient undertaking at various times in therapy, a series of differing epoché. It is argued that CBT ultimately ‘works’ by the patient learning to achieve a rudimentary phenomenological attitude. The patient acquires insight by ‘standing back’ from their factual understanding of self, others and the world.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"50 1","pages":"189-224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341362","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41645466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Phenomenology of Learning and Becoming: Enthusiasm, Creativity and Self-Development, written by Eugene Mario DeRobertis","authors":"Rodger E. Broomé","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341364","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":"50 1","pages":"249-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43914935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Husserl and Gurwitsch on Horizonal Intentionality: The Gurwitch Memorial Lecture 2018","authors":"D. Moran","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341352","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Gurwitsch is the philosopher of consciousness par excellence. This paper presents a systematic exposition of Aron Gurwitsch’s main contribution to phenomenology, namely his theory of the ‘field of consciousness’ with its a priori structure of theme, thematic field, margin (halo and horizon). I present Gurwitsch as an orthodox defender of Husserlian descriptive phenomenology, albeit one who rejected Husserl’s reduction to the transcendental ego and Husserl’s overt idealism. He maintained with Husserl the priority of consciousness as the source of all meaning and validity but he rejected Husserl’s transcendental idealism in favour of a ‘levels of existence’ approach. Gurwitsch’s project was to show the continuity between Gestalt psychology (stripped of its naturalism) and Husserlian eidetics. I explain his concepts of theme, thematic field, margin and horizon as a consistent development of Husserlian thought. I conclude by claiming that neither Gurwitsch nor Husserl fully appreciate how the horizons of an entity can support radical novelty and the application of entirely new contexts.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45988167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Existential Psychotherapy: a Genetic-Phenomenological Approach, written by Daniel Sousa (2017)","authors":"A. Pol","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46987494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology: The World Outside the Clinic, written by Miraj Desai (2018)","authors":"T. Beck","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341356","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341356","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45411169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To See Oneself as Seen by Others","authors":"Fredrik Westerlund","doi":"10.1163/15691624-12341354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341354","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article develops a new phenomenological analysis of the interpersonal motives and structure of shame. I pursue the argument that shame is rooted in our desire for social affirmation and conditioned by our ability to see ourselves as we appear to others. My central thesis is that shame is what we feel when, due to some trait or action of ours, we come to perceive ourselves as fundamentally despicable and non-affirmable. By showing how our urge for affirmation fuels and informs our self-perception in shame, the analysis provides a better understanding of the simultaneously interpersonal and personal character of shame. Furthermore, it sheds new light on some central aspects of shame that have been insufficiently understood: on the emotional charge and quality of shame, on the role played by our values and identity in shame, and on the continuity, differences, and transfers between personal shame, social shame, and embarrassment.","PeriodicalId":35562,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Phenomenological Psychology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1163/15691624-12341354","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49543646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}