The Qualitative Description of Human Experience: The Aesthetic Dimension

Abstract

The Duquesne Studies in Phenomenological Psychology, Volumes 1 (Giorgi, Fischer & Von Eckartsberg, 1971), 2 (Giorgi, Fischer & Murray, 1975), 3 (Giorgi, Knowles & Smith, 1979), and 4 (Giorgi, Barton & Maes, 1983), was one of the first programmatic approaches to psychological research that attempted to be faithful to the qualitative dimensions of human experience. Interesting and distinctive research topics such as the experience of being criminally victimised (Fischer & Wertz, 1979) and the experience of suspicion and its relationship to delusion as experienced by psychiatric patients (de Koning, 1979) were pursued.