ABSTRACT This article outlines differences between phenomenology and method, with implications for psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research. Drawing on a study exploring how mental health nurses are therapeutic, we focus on how taking experience seriously is encouraged through being phenomenological. We look at how research method and theory – and fixed beliefs or ideas – tend to constrict language, so that personal (sensual) meaning is lost or curtailed. Being phenomenological instead ‘opens up’ language and consequently meaning, in an act of truthfulness through speaking one’s experience, which we see as both psychotherapeutic and a valid form of research.

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意义的私人生活——对心理治疗和心理治疗研究的一些启示

摘要 本文概述了现象学和方法之间的差异，对心理治疗和心理治疗研究有影响。根据一项探索心理健康护士如何治疗的研究，我们关注如何通过现象学来鼓励认真对待经验。我们研究研究方法和理论——以及固定的信念或想法——如何倾向于限制语言，从而使个人（感性）意义丢失或缩减。相反，现象学“打开”了语言，从而“打开”了意义，通过说出自己的经验，这是一种真实的行为，我们将其视为心理治疗和有效的研究形式。