Fenomenological Research in Psychotherapy

Abstract

The paper presents phenomenological research—a qualitative idiographic research approach dedicated to research of experience. Instead of (objective) third-person descriptions and theories (“from outside”) phenomenological approach is interested in lived human experience (“from within”). The term phenomenological research represents a wide spectrum of research fields that try to capture experience: my (researcher’s) experience, other’s experience, experience of particular states of mind, and/or existential positions, etc. The paper emphasizes those relevant for psychotherapeutic research.