Intuitive inquiry: Inviting transformation and breakthrough insights in qualitative research.

This study explores the role of survivor self-blame in ego defense against trauma-induced experiences of powerlessness. Using the intuitive inquiry method, I interviewed 12 survivors of interpersonal trauma. Results reveal a complex, largely unconscious process between vulnerability, powerlessness, fear, and interpersonal trust. The process is twofold: (1) survivors equate vulnerability required for interpersonal trust with the fear and powerlessness associated with their trauma, and (2) survivors are in a trauma bond with self-blame that helps by protecting them from powerlessness and hurts by preventing them from coming home to vulnerability required for interpersonal trust.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

How self-blame empowers and disempowers survivors of interpersonal trauma: An intuitive inquiry.

Unthank¹

2019

“…Cycles 3, 4, and 5 represent the return arc of the hermeneutic circle as "a process of transforming pre-understanding via the understanding of others" (p. 28). Further information about the hermeneutical development and the five cycles can be found in the guest editor's introduction to this special section (Anderson, 2019).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using in-depth phenomenologically informed interviews in a study of archetypal transference in jungian psychoanalysis: An intuitive inquiry.

Deak

2019

In this special section on intuitive inquiry, this study investigated the experience of archetypal transference in Jungian psychoanalysis using a hermeneutically informed qualitative method called intuitive inquiry. In archetypal transference, the transference does not stem directly from past personal experience, but rather relates to the collective unconscious, archetypal image, or situation that is projected onto the analyst or patient. One such possibility that may appear in the analytic relationship in the form of idealizing transference is rooted in the archetype of the spiritual master-disciple relationship. Literature on Jungian psychology and spiritual traditions from around the world provides the background for this work. In-depth, phenomenologically informed interviews that were conducted with nine senior Jungian analysts are included in this study. The analysts shared their own experiences with archetypal transference and discussed its relevance and effects on the analytic relationship. Through the 5 successive cycles of intuitive inquiry, data was collected, analyzed, and compared with the initial set of interpretive statements on the topic. Results were interpreted and formulated into a theory regarding archetypal transference in Jungian psychoanalysis. The findings suggest that archetypal transference is inevitably present in the analytic relationship even if it is not evident or easy to distinguish from other types of transference and serves the psychological and spiritual growth of both the analyst and patient.

“…Intuitive inquiry is an “epistemology of the heart” (Anderson, 2004, p. 308) that invites the researcher to begin with her own subjective experience and enter into intimate and potentially transformative dialogue with participants in order to expand, refine, and challenge her own understanding of the topic. For further information about intuitive inquiry and about its five cycles, see the guest editor’s introduction to this special section on intuitive inquiry (Anderson, 2019).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s transformative experiences while distance running in nature: An intuitive inquiry.

Ludwig¹

2019

This study explored women’s transformative experiences while distance running in nature from the perspectives of embodiment and psychospiritual development. The research method used was intuitive inquiry, a hermeneutical approach in which the researcher begins with her own subjective experience and invites transformation in dialogue with participants. Twenty-three women aged 28–64 described their transformative experiences while distance running in nature using embodied writing (Anderson, 2001), and responded in writing to interview questions that contextualized and gave additional meaning to their transformative experiences. Five final interpretive lenses indicate that (1) during a transformative experience while distance running in nature, women enter into 2 or more states of attunement—intrapersonal, interpersonal, trans-species, or transterra—that open a core spiritual sense of interconnectedness with herself, human others, animals, and the earth; (2) during a transformative experience while distance running in nature women experienced moments of feeling filled with faith, gratitude, grace, or love, which may become sustained transpersonal traits in her life; (3) distance running in nature as a spiritual practice potentiates transformative processes of individuation, self-healing, and “becoming animal” (Abram, 2010) that contribute to women’s deepening embodiment and continuing psychospiritual development; (4) women who engage in distance running in nature as an ongoing spiritual practice often cultivate a recognizable, embodied core spirituality; and (5) women’s transformative experiences while distance running in nature, and participation in this study, generated a shift from an externalized spiritual authority to one that was embodied and participatory with nature as authoritative.