Amedeo Giorgi
School: Psychology and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Bio:
Dr. Giorgi received his Ph.D. in Psychology from
Fordham University. He worked as a consultant to government and industry as a human factors expert for about four years and then decided to become an academician. As a professor he taught at Manhattan College, then Duquesne University and has been associated with Saybrook Graduate School since 1986.
Once Dr. Giorgi entered academic life, he became critical of mainstream approaches to psychology and he began to seek alternative approaches. He encountered philosophical phenomenology, especially the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, and he adopted that approach as a framework for developing an alternative approach to psychology. His specialty is in the area of psychological research practices, especially qualitative approaches, and he is the developer of a phenomenological method based on the thought of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
At Saybrook, Dr. Giorgi teaches courses on the phenomenological approaches to psycholgy and on the application of the phenomenological method. He is the author of more than 100 articles on phenomenology and psychology and he is the founder of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and was its editor for 25 years.
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Curriculum Vitae
Upcoming Presentations and Public Addresses
Degrees, Discipline, Year, Institution
# Ph.D. Psychology Fordham University 1958 # M.A. Psychology Fordham University 1955 # A.B. Psychology St. Joseph's College 1953
Current Projects and Professional Activities
Significant Publications
(1970). Psychology as a human science: A phenomenologically based approach. New York: Harper & Row.
(1986). Editor (with P. D. Ashworth & A. J. J. de Koning). Qualitative research in psychology. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.
Important Conference Presentations
- The Phenomenological Movement and Research in the Human Sciences. Presented to Nurses and Health Science Providers on the Occasion of the Opening of the M.A. Program in Nursing Of the College of Nursing of Aichi Medical University of Nagoya, Japan. May 21, 2004.
- Phenomenology. Part of a Panel on: Saybrook’s Roots: Humanistic, Existential, Phenomenological and Transpersonal. Presented at Saybrook Graduate School’s Residential Conference held at San Mateo, CA. June 18, 2004.
- The Multiple Meanings of Phenomenology When Used Within the Context of a Qualitative Research Procedure in Psychology. Presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Human Science Research Conference held at Brock University, St. Catherine, Ont. Canada on August 6, 2004.
- A Critical Perspective on the History of Psychology: Some Phenomenological Contributions. Presented at Fordham University’s Colloquium for Graduate Psychology Students. New York City, N.Y. September 29, 2004.
- The Phenomenological Research Method. Presented to the Korean Qualitative Research Center of Ewha Women’s University of Korea, in Seoul, Korea on October 9 & 10, 2004.
- History and Systems of Psychology. Taught to Graduate Students at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, CA.. October-December, 2004.
Expertise Working with Saybrook Students
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Research Expertise
Research Expertise Rating Guide:
- studied in a class or have read intensively on my own
- special training in the form of a workshop or equivalent
- taught a class in, or supervised research using this method (research practicum, on a dissertation or master's committee
- used in research myself
- published or presented at conferences my research using this method
Methods Traditionally Considered As Quantitative (But Need Not Be)
| Laboratory Research |
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| Field Experiments |
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| Randomized Controlled Clinical |
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| Quasi-experimental methods |
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| Correlational Methods |
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Methods That Could Use Quantitative Or Qualitative Methods
| Action Research |
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| Survey Research |
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| Interview Research |
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| Observational Research |
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| Epidemiological Research |
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| Ethnography |
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| Focus Groups |
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| Self-Observational Methods |
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| Narrative Methods |
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| Feminist Methods |
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| Content Analysis |
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| Discovery-Oriented (psychotherapy) |
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| Events paradigm (psychotherapy) |
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| Archival Research |
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| Case History Methods |
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| Appreciative Inquiry |
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| Multiple Case Depth Research |
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| Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design |
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| Longitudinal research |
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| Cross-sectional research |
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Methods Primarily Associated With Qualitative Research (But May Also Use Quantitative)
| Ethnoautobiographical research |
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| Hermeneutics |
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| Grounded Theory |
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| Phenomenology |
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| Heuristic Research |
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Types of Analysis
| Simple Parametric Statistics (t-test, etc.) |
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| Confidence intervals |
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| Analysis of Variance (including MANOVA) |
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| Analysis of Covariance |
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| Regression (including multiple regression) |
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| Discriminant Function Analysis |
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| Structural Equation Modeling/Path Analysis |
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| Causal Modeling |
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| Cluster Analysis |
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| Survival Analysis |
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| Nonparametrics |
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| Bayesian Analysis |
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| Meta-analysis and effect sizes |
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| Factor Analysis |
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| Time series analysis |
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| Multidimensional scaling |
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