Psychology as a Human Science

by Amedeo Giorgi

Overview

Psychology as a Human Science: A Phenomenologically Based Approach is a classic text in the field of psychology that is as relevant today as it was when it was first published in 1970. Giorgi's text helped establish the philosophical foundation humanistic psychology and the human science approach. He provides an important critique of traditional methods in psychology while providing his alternative. This new version includes a new introduction by Giorgi along with a new Foreword by Rodger Broomé.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162810506
Publisher:	University Professors Press
Publication date:	06/14/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	739 KB

About the Author

Amedeo Giorgi received his PhD in psychology from Fordham University in 1958 and first taught at Manhattan College and then at Duquesne University. He was trained in experimental psychology and he pursued a career in academic psychology. He found the standard experimental and quantitative procedures being pursued by mainstream psychology to be too limited for human phenomena so he turned to phenomenological philosophy as the basis for a non-reductionistic and non-naturalistic philosophical anthropology. He is the author of Psychology as a Human Science and The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology, and was the founder of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and its first editor for 25 years. He transferred to Saybrook University in 1986 where he taught courses in phenomenological methodology and phenomenological psychology. From 1990 until 1995 he held a joint appointment with the francophone University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He is currently Professor Emeritus at Saybrook and continues to write articles demonstrating the value of phenomenological approaches to psychological phenomena.

Editorial Reviews

When Giorgi's volume was published in 1970, it was at the cutting edge of scholarly movement in psychology—as original and radical as any book of its time. Now almost 50 years, it is a seminal, indeed landmark, text that remains relevant and is required reading for any serious student of psychology.

Cover - Frederick Wertz

Amedeo Giorgi's 1970 work Psychology as a Human Science is a classic in modern psychology. To fully appreciate the historical origins of qualitative research in psychology and the full context of Giorgi's later development of psychological methodology, this book is mandatory reading.

Cover - Magnus Englander

When this book first appeared, it offered a major step forward for the discipline, with its deep critique of psychology's mechanistic view of the person, grounded in an approach uncritically taken from the natural sciences. The passage of years has shown that prescient analysis to have been brilliantly insightful.

Cover - Chris Aanstoos