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THE REDIRECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY
Essays in Honor of Amedeo P. Giorgi
Une édition du
(An Edition of the)
Cercle interdisciplinaire de recherches phénoménologiques (Cirp)
(Interdisciplinary Circle of Phenomenological Research)
Université du Québec à Montréal
(University of Quebec in Montreal)
Thomas F. Cloonan & Christian Thiboutot, responsables de l’édition
(Editors)
Les Collectifs du Cirp
Volume 1 (édition spéciale)
2010, p. iii
ISBN 978-0-9866654-1-7
THE REDIRECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY
Essays in Honor of Amedeo P. Giorgi
Contributors
Christopher M. Aanstoos, Ph.D.
Marc Applebaum, Ph.D.
Thomas F. Cloonan, Ph.D.
Larry Davidson, Ph.D.
Magnus Englander, Ph.D.
Barbro M. Giorgi, Ph.D.
Steen Halling, Ph.D.
Mufid James Hannush, Ph.D.
Bernd Jager, Ph.D.
George Kunz, Ph.D.
Bertha Mook, Ph.D.
James Morley, Ph.D.
Richard Rojcewicz, Ph.D.
David L. Smith, C.S.Sp., Ph.D.
Les Todres, Ph.D.
Frederick Wertz, Ph.D.
Akihiro Yoshida, Ph.D.
University of West Georgia (United States)
Saybrook University (United States)
Marymount College of Fordham University
(Emeritus) (United States)
Yale University (United States)
Malmö University (Sweden)
Saybrook University (United States)
Seattle University (United States)
Rosemont College (United States)
University of Quebec in Montreal (Canada)
Seattle University (United States)
University of Ottawa (Canada)
Ramapo College (United States)
Point Park University (United States)
Duquesne University (United States)
Bournemouth University (United Kingdom)
Fordham University (United States)
Shukutoku University & Tokyo University
(Emeritus) (Japan)
Thomas F. Cloonan & Christian Thiboutot, Editors
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Cirp – Cercle interdisciplinaire de recherches phénoménologiques
(Interdisciplinary Circle of Phenomenological Research)
Département de psychologie
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville
Montréal, Québec
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Les Collectifs du Cirp
(The Collective Works of the Cirp)
ISBN 978-0-9866654-1-7
(Online version: www.cirp.uqam.ca)
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(Interdisciplinary Circle of Phenomenological Research)
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Dedication
While these essays were written to honor Amedeo Giorgi, the book itself is dedicated to the
memory of his beloved wife, Barbro Giorgi (1957-2007), who was his most significant
inspiration and critic and whose untimely death has left all of us and the phenomenological world
that much poorer.
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Note From the Publisher’s Editor
The publication of The Redirection of Psychology: essays in honor of Amedeo P. Giorgi
marks an important turning point in the history of the Cirp (le "Cercle interdisciplinaire de
recherches phénoménologiques") and the Department of Psychology at the University of Quebec
at Montreal (UQAM). With this first English title in the scientific repertoire of the CIRP,
phenomenological psychology at UQAM takes an important step on the international scene.
This original publication wants to honor Professor Amedeo Giorgi, both as a worldrenowned and innovative psychologist and as an eminent former colleague, who, more than a
decade ago, reinforced and expanded phenomenological psychology in UQAM. In the ensuing
years the university has attracted a growing number of gifted teachers and students whose
interests coalesced around the idea of a human science of psychology that would no longer model
itself exclusively on the natural sciences but that would draw its main inspiration from the
experience of concrete living. Today these psychologists form a unique and fertile group of
professors and students within the university’s psychology department.
The contributors to this bundle of essays live and work in all corners of the world, from
England, Canada and the United States to Sweden, South Africa and Japan. What the authors
have in common is that they all are former students and colleagues of Professor Amedeo Giorgi.
The essays collected in this volume are meant to express their appreciation and gratitude for
Amedeo Giorgi’s tireless teaching, for his great scholarship and erudition and, last but not least,
for his unfailing collegiality and loyal friendship.
Finally, I want to thank my colleague Professor Tom Cloonan, who not only conceived the
idea of this book, but also solicited and collected the manuscripts and did the substantial editing
of them, and then entrusted their publication to the CIRP that did the further required publisher’s
editing of the material. I also thank my colleague Professor Bernd Jager for his steady
encouragement and his editorial advice.
Christian Thiboutot, Ph.D.
Codirector of the Cirp
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Preface
Our book, The Redirection of Psychology, is a Festschrift. Literally, that German word
means "a writing in celebration". For us, it is a celebratory piece of writing in honor of Amedeo
P. Giorgi for his accomplishments of scholarly writing and of research and direction of others'
research as well as for his conceptualization of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center that
was established at Duquesne University in 1980. In addition, we honor Amedeo's instrumentality
in the foundation of the International Human Science Research Conferences (IHSRCs) through
the hosting of its first meeting at Duquesne University in 1983.
Another accomplishment of Amedeo's lifework also deserving of our honoring of him
through this Festschrift is the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, published by Brill. It is
the flagship journal of phenomenological psychology and it is on its way to its half-century
anniversary, 2020, since Amedeo's founding of it in 1970.
There are 17 of us who have written essays that constitute this book celebrating Amedeo.
The topics and styles of the essays are as individualistic as their authors. The common
denominator is the human science focus. We hope through our essays to educate and to advocate
the importance and urgency of psychology as human science. There can be no better celebration
of Amedeo than this.
Finally, a term in academia that has sometimes been used in lieu of Festschrift is Liber
Amicorum, a Book of Friends. This Latin term is as appropriate as Festschrift is for the book, a
book that has been written by colleagues and former students, all of whom are his friends. In our
circle of friends most certainly are Professor Christian Thiboutot and his colleagues of CIRP and
the Department of Psychology at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Without their friendship
and cooperation, this book's conception with its 17 essays would still be waiting for its birth.
Thomas F. Cloonan, Ph.D., Editor of the Essays
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
15
CHRISTOPHER M. AANSTOOS
Holistic Foundations of Psychology in Historical Perspective
19
MARC APPLEBAUM
Beyond Scientism and Relativism: Amedeo Giorgi’s Commitment to Human Science
41
THOMAS F. CLOONAN
Art and Flesh: A Psychology of Art by Way of Merleau-Ponty
61
LARRY DAVIDSON & LESLEY ANNE SOLOMON
The Value of Transcendental Phenomenology for Psychology: The Case of Psychosis
77
MAGNUS ENGLANDER
Subjectivity, Memory, and Human Science
101
BARBRO M. GIORGI
Application of Descriptive Phenomenological Research Method to the Field of
Clinical Research
119
STEEN HALLING
Truth and the Rhythm of Phenomenological Research
131
MUFID JAMES HANNUSH
Playing with Polarities of Existence: Toward Understanding a Pivotal Passage in
the Life and Work of Rollo May
145
BERND JAGER
Towards a Psychology of Homo Habitans: A Reflection on Cosmos and Universe
175
GEORGE KUNZ
The Epoché is Demanded by the Other in Levinas’ “Phenomenology of Action”
191
BERTHA MOOK
Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Psychotherapy
209
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JAMES MORLEY
It’s Always About the Epoché
223
RICHARD ROJCEWICZ
Husserl Versus Derrida
233
DAVID L. SMITH
A History of Amedeo P. Giorgi’s Contributions to the Psychology Department and
Phenomenology Center of Duquesne University in his Twenty-Four Years There
249
LES TODRES
Back to the Things Themselves: The Relevance of Embodied Understanding for
Caring Practices
267
FREDERICK J. WERTZ
The Method of Eidetic Intuition for Psychology
281
AKIHIRO TOSHIDA
A Phenomenological Explication of a Master Teacher’s Questioning Practices and
its Implications for the Explanation/Understanding issue in Psychology as a
Human Science
301
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE CONTRIBUTORS
323
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