| Reconstruction |
Reduction: the passage from the natural attitude to the unnatural or phenomenological one. |
Literature review: secondary, i.e., articles, books, theses, and dissertations that deal with the topic, thus describing how psychological science approaches the phenomenon to be investigated. |
Search the database according to the languages, their respective descriptors, and the time interval established for the search. The arguments and justifications supporting the above decisions must be developed at this stage. |
| Search in bibliographical research how knowledge on the topic we intend to research is constituted. |
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Suspension: judgments and morals established by common sense and science regarding the topic investigated. |
| Destruction |
Point out the aporias of truths established by theories and research dealing with the investigated phenomenon. |
Literature review: primary, with arguments from the classics of the philosophy of existence, history, or literature, pointing to the reductions, simplifications, and insufficiencies of the truths postulated by science. |
Studies of critical analyses by philosophers, historians, or literary scholars who deal with the topic investigated or even the contradictions about the themes within the scientific research. |
| This path opens up other possibilities for understanding the phenomenon. |
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Using imaginative variation, we follow the vectors internal to the phenomenon or the spatio-temporal dynamics in which the phenomenon moves. |
With open interviews or clinical consultations, we monitor the situation presenting itself in a unique context. To do so, we need to ensure that there is a triggering question - in the case of interviews. Furthermore, in the case of monitoring the clinical situation, we let the situation unfold as it happens. |
Careful reading and phenomenological analysis of the expressions that appeared during the interview(s) or clinical care(s) to reach the existential expressions present in the reports of the research participants. |
| Construction |
Description and explanation of units of meaning extracted from the expressions that appeared significant in the experiences of the research participants. |
A careful and detailed reading of the units of meaning was obtained during the meeting to highlight the units of meaning. |
Highlight, through a hermeneutic analysis, the meanings present in the experiences of the reports presented, giving them a name. |
| Articulation of other possible ways of understanding the phenomenon |
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Unity of meaning of experience. |
We can reach what is essential in the clinical discourse or the interview through an analysis that leads us to the meanings of the reported experiences. |
Highlight the element that shows the essential meaning of the phenomenon investigated and responds to the investigation proposal. |