Phenomenology is a recommended methodology when the study goals are to understand the meanings of human experiences or to explore concepts from new and fresh perspectives. However, existing methodology guidance is often conceptual and abstract. Few procedural instructions exist regarding data coding and interpretation. In this paper, the author reports on his experiences with phenomenology in t...

This essay examines a range of meanings and markers of adulthood, from biological to social, psychological, and legal. It describes a shift frommore universal and traditional definitions of adulthood, whichwere also heavily gendered, to an increasingly diverse and personalized set of definitions. This shift reflects the prolonged, complex, and highly unequal spectrum of pathways that young peop...

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What does the word ‘trust’ mean? Scholars continue to express concern regarding their collective lack of consensus about trust’s meaning. Conceptual confusion on trust makes comparing one trust study to another problematic. To facilitate cumulative trust research, the authors propose two kinds of trust typologies: (a) a classification system for types of trust, and (b) definitions of six relate...

Daniel Hack Tuke first used the word 'psychotherapeutics' in 1872 (Ellenberger, 1970, p. 765). He defined the term psychotherapy in his dictionary (Tuke, 1892), published twenty years later, as 'treatment of disease by the influence of the mind on the body'. Advances in the field of the behavioural sciences and other events in the twentieth century have led to changes in the meanings of psychot...

Entropy is a basic physical quantity that led to various, and sometimes apparently connicting interpretations. It has been successively assimilated to diierent concepts such as disorder and information. In this paper we're going to revisit these conceptions, and establish the three following results: Entropy measures lack of information; it also measures information. These two conceptions are c...

September-October 1998 Suffering is one of the most profound and disturbing of human experiences. The very word suffering has a resonance that relates to our sense of life’s meaning and the threat suffering poses to our hopes of happiness. It does not refer just to maladies, pains, and difficulties with which we can and should cope. It involves crises and threats that constitute a degradation o...