Entering the Circle: Hermeneutic Investigation in Psychology

Martin J. Packer · Richard B. Addison

Jul 1989 · State University of New York Press

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Entering the Circle addresses the practical and methodological aspects of research within the interpretive or hermeneutic perspective. It contains descriptions of exemplary interpretive research projects in psychology and closely allied fields. Offering insight into the range and subtleties of the methods of interpretive inquiry, this collection challenges the reader to question the assumptions behind more traditional research that aims, instead, to objectify human phenomena.

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Martin J. Packer is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Scientist at Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development in San Francisco. Richard B. Addison is a clinical psychologist in private practice, Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco's School of Medicine, and a member of the Behavioral Science faculty in the Family Practice Residency Program at Community Hospital of Sonoma County in Santa Rosa, California.