Hermeneutic Approaches to Interpretive Research

Dissertations In a Different Key
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-68689-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Reihe: Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

This unique and insightful book brings together a collection of impactful essays written by former psychology doctoral students, which feature hermeneutics as a method of qualitative inquiry.

Philip Cushman brings together eleven chapters in which his former students describe their hermeneutic dissertations—how they chose their topics, their approach to research, what they discovered, what it was like emotionally for them, and how the process has influenced them in the years since completion. The contributors explore important contemporary issues like social justice, identity, gender inequality, and the political consequences of psychological theories and offer fresh, critical perspectives rooted in lived experiences. This book showcases the value and importance of hermeneutics, both as a philosophy, and as an orientation for conducting research that aids in critical, culturally respectful, interdisciplinary approaches.

This is illuminating reading for graduate students and scholars curious about the hermeneutic approach to research, particularly those engaged in fields like theoretical psychology, clinical psychology, psychotherapy, mental health, cultural history, and social work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cushman, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Hermeneutics and the Blooming of Mavericks: An Introduction Part I: Critiques of Texts and Practices 2. Interpreting the Political Meaning of Manualized Trauma Treatment: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Battlemind and the Warrior Cult 3. Psychotherapy and the Embodiment of Neuronal Identity 4.Emerging Into a World of Understanding: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Perinatal Mood Disorders and Clinical Practice 5.A Hermeneutic Analysis of Trauma Diagnoses 6.Feelings of Enlightenment: Emotion-Focused Therapy’s Scientific Cloaking of Enlightenment Values Part II: Philosophical Explorations 7.Living Truth Between Traditions: A Hermeneutic Integration of Moral Perception and Mutual Recognition 8.The Psychological Dissertation and the Voice of the Therapist: From the Indivisible Self to the Land of Intersubjectivity Part III: Applying Hermeneutic Theory to Psychological Practices 9.Encountering Questions About Being Human: Toward Improving Training Practices for End-of-Life Care 10.Psychotherapy, Hermeneutics, and Relationality: Certainty Is a Dangerous Commodity 11.Heidegger, Homelessness, and the Adopted Self: An Application of a Hermeneutic Methodology to an Essentially Hermeneutic Psychological Phenomenon. 12.Are We Woke Yet? Hermeneutics and the Politics of 21st-Century Social Justice

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Cushman is a retired psychotherapist and a retired core faculty member of doctoral programs in psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology (Alameda) and most recently at Antioch University Seattle, Washington. His latest book is Travels With the Self: Interpreting Psychology as Cultural History.