Amedeo Giorgi received his PhD in psychology from Fordham University in 1958 and first taught at Manhattan College and then at Duquesne University. He was trained in experimental psychology and he pursued a career in academic psychology. He found the standard experimental and quantitative procedures being pursued by mainstream psychology to be too limited for human phenomena so he turned to phenomenological philosophy as the basis for a non-reductionistic and non-naturalistic philosophical anthropology. He is the author of Psychology as a Human Scienceand The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology, and was the founder of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology and its first editor for 25 years. He transferred to Saybrook University in 1986 where he taught courses in phenomenological methodology and phenomenological psychology. From 1990 until 1995 he held a joint appointment with the francophone University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). He is currently Professor Emeritus at Saybrook and continues to write articles demonstrating the value of phenomenological approaches to psychological phenomena.
Books:
Giorgi, A. (2018). Reflections on certain qualitative and phenomenological research methods. Colorado Springs, CO: University Professors Press. (purchase here)
Giorgi, A. (in press). Psychology as a human science: A phenomenologically based approach. Colorado Springs, CO: University Professors Press. (Originally published in 1970)
Giorgi, A. (2009). The descriptive phenomenological method in psychology: A modified Husserlian approach. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.
Giorgi, A. (1991). Phenomenology and psychological research. Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.