Hermeneutic Approaches to Interpretive Research

Philip Cushman is a retired psychotherapist and a retired core faculty member of doctoral programs in psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology (Alameda) and most recently at Antioch University Seattle, Washington. His latest book is Travels With the Self: Interpreting Psychology as Cultural History.

1.Hermeneutics and the Blooming of Mavericks: An Introduction Part I: Critiques of Texts and Practices 2. Interpreting the Political Meaning of Manualized Trauma Treatment: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Battlemind and the Warrior Cult 3. Psychotherapy and the Embodiment of Neuronal Identity 4.Emerging Into a World of Understanding: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Perinatal Mood Disorders and Clinical Practice 5.A Hermeneutic Analysis of Trauma Diagnoses 6.Feelings of Enlightenment: Emotion-Focused Therapy’s Scientific Cloaking of Enlightenment Values Part II: Philosophical Explorations 7.Living Truth Between Traditions: A Hermeneutic Integration of Moral Perception and Mutual Recognition 8.The Psychological Dissertation and the Voice of the Therapist: From the Indivisible Self to the Land of Intersubjectivity Part III: Applying Hermeneutic Theory to Psychological Practices 9.Encountering Questions About Being Human: Toward Improving Training Practices for End-of-Life Care 10.Psychotherapy, Hermeneutics, and Relationality: Certainty Is a Dangerous Commodity 11.Heidegger, Homelessness, and the Adopted Self: An Application of a Hermeneutic Methodology to an Essentially Hermeneutic Psychological Phenomenon. 12.Are We Woke Yet? Hermeneutics and the Politics of 21st-Century Social Justice