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Travel as Qualitative Method: Travel in Psychology’s History and in Medard Boss’ Sojourn to India

  • This article details the history, possibility, limits, and ethics of cross-cultural travel as a qualitative method in psychology. The article provides a brief overview of the ambiguous relationship between psychology and culture and develops an account of the history of travel methods in psychology. It then analyzes an exemplary case of travel research involving Medard Boss’ sojourn to India and his encounters with Indian sages. This article argues that the history of psychology is, in many ways, a history of the exiled, the dispossessed, and the traveler (e.g., Freud, Fromm, Fanon, Jahoda, Rogers, Jung, and others). The article concludes with reflections on using travel methods in an increasingly globalized world and in an ecologically sensitive way.

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Author:Miraj U. Desai
Parent Title (English):Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 54, No. 4 (2014), pp. 494-507. [Online ISSN 1552-650X] [doi.org/10.1177/0022167813517942]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2014
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:to purchase via publisher
IdNo:Desai_M_U_2014
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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