Any attempt to understand human relationships leads to an exploration of attachment and the importance of parent-child bond. Though my YouTube channel has been indirectly attentive to these themes, there are a few videos where I have approached the subject. In this post, I give an overview of the material from three videos. If you’d…
Category: Descriptive Psychology
Interview with Marc Applebaum
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Marc Applebaum. We talked about his experience and education in psychological research and about how his interest was first developed in phenomenology. We also talk about phenomenological attitude, the importance of empathy with the experience of another human being, the connection between knowing someone and the style…
Psychology as Counter-Discipline: On Introducing Oneself
What is a good way to introduce yourself to someone? I hadn’t given this question much thought. But I started asking it when I received Rachel Haywire‘s tweet, “Where can I get an introduction to your work?” Is there an introductory place in my work? A place appropriate for new friends and interlocutors? I can…
Conversations & Positions
We shouldn’t think about conversations only as exchanges of information. Nor should we think about our positions in conversations only as givers and receivers of information. Too much emphasis on information overshadows the fact that our position in conversations are also tied with power, rights, and duties. For example, in a father-son conversation, we could…
Dialogue
What we are doing continually in our lives is […] “encountering difference,” and then allowing the moral understandings of the other to place our own understandings into question. In this approach, we are continually tacking back and forth between our beliefs, commitments, perspectives, and moral understandings and those of others. It is that tacking back…