The phenomenological concept against a phenomenological method: the Critical analysis of Medard Boss work with dreams

This small E.T. Gendlin’s work is devoted, apparently, to a private problem – the analysis of dreams. However, on several examples he brings up key questions of methodology of the phenomenological approach in psychotherapy, which carries out the critical analysis of concepts and the modes of work entered into Daseinanalysis psychotherapy by M.Boss and shows that concepts themselves yet do not guarantee use of a phenomenological method which would correspond to its essence. In opposition to the Boss, the author explains the understanding of a phenomenological method and opens substantive provisions of the approach to work with experience.

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