BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online

    ‘Yes it is phenomenological’: a reply to Max Van Manen’s critique of interpretative phenomenological analysis

    Smith, Jonathan A. (2018) ‘Yes it is phenomenological’: a reply to Max Van Manen’s critique of interpretative phenomenological analysis. Qualitative Health Research 28 (12), pp. 1955-1958. ISSN 1049-7323.

    [img]
    Preview
    Text
    23594.pdf - Author's Accepted Manuscript

    Download (428kB) | Preview

    Abstract

    In this paper I present a rebuttal of Max Van Manen’s (2017) critique of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Unfortunately Van Manen’s piece contains a series of misrepresentations of IPA and its history. Here I answer these misrepresentations and present IPA as subscribing, and contributing, to a broad and holistic phenomenology concerned with both pre-reflective and reflective domains of lived experience. I contend that IPA has much to offer to our understanding of the experience of health and illness where participants are spontaneously and actively engaged in making sense of the significant and unexpected things which happen to them.

    Metadata

    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Jonathan Smith
    Date Deposited: 20 Aug 2018 09:27
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:43
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/23594

    Statistics

    Activity Overview
    6 month trend
    2,493Downloads
    6 month trend
    454Hits

    Additional statistics are available via IRStats2.

    Archive Staff Only (login required)

    Edit/View Item
    Edit/View Item