James Morley

Ramapo College · Department of Psychology

Phenomenology is a philosophy that began in 1900 with the publication of Logical Investigations by Edmund Husserl (1970). In that work Husserl introduced a novel way of examining and studying the phenomenon of consciousness. It should be remembered that psychology was founded in 1879 as the science of consciousness by Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig. Wund...

• This brief commentary is supportive of Michel Bitbol's evocation of Merleau-Ponty's ontology as the suitable means for understanding the mission of neurophenomenology. I try to historically contextualize some of Bitbol's key points and draw attention to the methodologi-cal and pedagogical challenges that lie ahead. « 1 » Two important figures in...

This article presents the tradition of phenomenologically founded psychological research that was originally initiated by Amedeo Giorgi. This data analysis method is inseparable from the broader project of establishing an autonomous phenomenologically based human scientific psychology. After recounting the history of the method from the 1960’s to t...

Reviews the book, Carnal Hermeneutics by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor (2015). When contemporary continental thought is developing in new directions, it may well be in our interests, as Humanistic psychologists, to attend to these shifting tides. This volume, Carnal Hermeneutics , offers exactly such an update on these new developments. These e...

This essay strives to bring together the institutional history of phenomenological psychology within the American academy from the middle of the 20th century to the current moment. Although phenomenological psychology has always been a dynamically international and interdisciplinary movement, the scope of this essay is limited to the different ways...

Invited commentary on: Zahavi , D and Martiny, KM (2019 ) Phenomenology in Nursing Studies: New perspectives, International Journal of Nursing Studies In Press (production please update to cite in press with doi url – for IJNS-D-18-01380R1)

Comments on the article "The humanistic psychology-positive psychology divide: Contrasts in philosophical foundations" by Waterman (see record 2013-12501-001). Distancing positive psychology from humanistic psychology, Alan Waterman wishes to close the conversation between the two cognate psychological paradigms. It's true that strong fences can ma...

To honor Giorgi's contributions to psychological research methodology, this essay strives to elucidate a key component of phenomenological methodology (the epoché), which is too often taken for granted, misunderstood, or neglected in qualitative research and the secondary literature. It calls for a renewed appreciation of the epoché and the phenome...

Yoga, the ancient inter-religious thread running through all Indian Spirituality, shares a remarkable congruence with twentieth-century phenomenology. But this conjuncture is not based on a common aspiration of "transcendence from the world," as argued by previous comparisons. Instead, by applying the more advanced Existential Phenomenology of Maur...

Late nineteenth-century psychiatry distanced itself from religion (and spirituality) for good reasons. Psychiatry needed to assert itself as a physical science that was in no way related to the rudely unscientific and irrational "faith healing" emblematic of pre-modern procedures for treating mental illness. It strove for the authoritative status e...

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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 9.1 (2002) 87-90 (Witgenstein, Tractatus, 6.52) IF ONE WAS TO PERFORM a thought experiment by imagining a scientifically explained universe, how would this explained universe resolve my issues of value and meaning? Would it help me to live a better life? In one sentence, Witgenstein expressed exactly the issues...

2001 by University of Hawai‘i Press flection that is widely known as the ‘‘phenomenological reduction’’ or epoche ¯ , perhaps best explained as an absolute suspension of belief, doubt, or any kind of presupposition about the existence of the world and its objects. Earlier comparative studies of yoga and phenomenology have rightly stressed this part...

This paper presents the place of dreaming in Merleau-Ponty's thought. It elicits the view of dreaming developed in three seminal texts:Phenomenology of Perception, the passivity fragment from the Themes from the Lectures at the College de France, and The Visible and the Invisible. In each of these texts, Merleau-Ponty releases dreaming from the sec...

This is an empirical phenomenological inquiry into everyday experiences of daydreaming. The theoretical literature was found to be deficient in accounting for the ambiguity inherent to the phenomenon and lacking in concrete empirical descriptions. This study's phenomenological method was implemented in response to a body of natural scientific studi...

This article traces the biological foundations essential to humanistic psychology. It presents, as an alternative to the biochemical emphasis in mainstream biology, the long‐neglected holistic paradigm that developed out of the vitalist tradition in biology. After a review of the historical course of this alternative stream of scientific thought, t...

This essay offers an interpretation of the yoga practice of pran ayama (breath control) that is influenced by the existential phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. My approach to yoga will be less concerned with a comparison between Merleau- Ponty's thought and the texts of classical yoga than with the elucidation of the actual experience of brea...