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Phenomenology for therapists: researching the lived world Linda Finlay Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 ISBN: 9780470666463 (print), 9781119975144 (online), 295 pages, RRP A$49.95 DOI: 10.1002/9781119975144
Linda Finlay, author of Phenomenology for therapists: Researching the lived world, is a professional in the field of occupational therapy, psychotherapy and psychology. With prior published work in the areas of occupational therapy and research, the author has written this book to highlight the scope, breadth and depth of phenomenology, as a philosophical underpinning to the research process, as well as to provide a guiding approach and method. Specifically aimed at the therapist and the emerging researcher, this book is formulated as an aid to bridging the gap between the coalface of therapy and the world of research, by linking and utilising the broad world of possibility and opportunity that phenomenology has to offer.
As distinct from providing a 'how to' approach, the author identifies that the book has been formulated to provide an explorative experience of phenomenology in order to introduce, explicate and offer a range of possibilities. To this end the book provides three separate sections that clearly outline the concepts, theoretical perspectives and philosophical underpinnings of phenomenology, followed by six phenomenological research approaches, and finally attends to the practical elements of...