Scott D. Churchill is Professor of Psychology at the
University of Dallas and Editor of The
Humanistic Psychologist. His work focuses on development of
phenomenological and hermeneutic methodologies.
Currently he is studying interspecies communication with Bonoboos. Scott
wrote the article,
Encountering the Animal Other: Reflections on Moments of Empathic Seeing.
He writes, "Unfortunately, there have not been many psychologists willing
to entertain the notion of empathy or intuition as a reliable or even valid
mode of access to psychological life of others."
In this article Scott explores the first person
(self-centered), third person (detached omnipotent) and empathic second
person perspective. "As a whole, the field of psychology has generally
provided for the first person perspective to be legitimate means of access
only to one's own private experience, while insisting that we must observe
all others' experience from a neutral "third person" perspective." Sub Conference:
Science
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"As
a whole, the field of psychology has generally provided for the first
person perspective to be legitimate means of access only to one's own
private experience, while insisting that we must observe all others'
experience from a neutral "third person" perspective.
Unfortunately, there have not been many psychologists willing to
entertain the notion of empathy or intuition as a reliable or even valid
mode of access to psychological life of others."
Sub Conference:
Science
