ABSTRACT In this article, as a phenomenological psychologist, researcher, and professor I offer reflections on the six articles that make up this special edition of the Journal. I respond to each in some detail, addressing issues around the challenges of using phenomenological methods, understanding them adequately, and the challenge of finding ways of studying phenomena systematically while also remaining retaining an attitude of humility about our capacity to arrive at understandings that do justice to the accounts of research participants. I have found that the most productive dialogues take place when there is a mixture of agreement and disagreement allowing for a clarification of one’s own understanding and point of view as one takes into account and struggles with perspectives that that one had not previously encountered. This has very much been the case for me in this instance.

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对以体验为导向的研究和心理治疗中开放性和方法之间紧张关系的反思

摘要 在本文中，作为现象学心理学家、研究员和教授，我对构成该期刊特刊的六篇文章进行了反思。我对每一个都做了一些详细的回应，围绕着使用现象学方法的挑战，充分理解它们，以及找到系统地研究现象的方法的挑战，同时对我们达成正确理解的能力保持谦逊的态度。到研究参与者的账户。我发现，最有成效的对话发生在同意和不同意的混合时，允许澄清自己的理解和观点，同时考虑到一个人以前从未遇到过的观点并与之抗争。