The Person at the Core of Psychological Science

The paper has been written from a philosophical perspective and triggered by the recurrent discussions in psychology about most suitable methods to study our multifaceted subjectivity. Its main point is that phenomenological understanding of human person provides robust also flexible framework for psychology. first part discusses three classical distinctions –individual/general; explaining/understanding; induction/interpretation– which, spite possible deficiencies, are useful illustrate specificity sciences relative natural sciences. If not understood as an either-or dichotomy these represent search right balance reflect complexity richness psychological science. second presents notions ‘vital reduction’ ‘personalist reduction’, where reductions does take on eliminativistic meaning, but directing mind’s gaze attend what originally case. reveals subject experience at center lifeworld, sees rationality –i.e., power grasp meaning things recognize other subjects experience­– deeper dimension subject, who we can thus call person. Psychology phenomenology converge disclosing person-centeredness lifeworld.