PCA and Phenonemology

approaches between empathic understanding and phenomenological reduction; non-direction and epoché

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate the approximations between the pairs of concepts of non-directivity and empathic understanding, and epoché and phenomenological reduction. The associations made between phenomenology and the Person-Centered Approach (PCA) are common, but it has become necessary to verify, through a bibliographical revision, whether these concepts by Carl Rogers and Edmund Husserl really have similarities. epoché and non-directivity are judgment suspension postures, which the phenomenological researcher and the Rogerian therapist, respectively, must present when faced with a phenomenon. empathic understanding and phenomenological reduction are attitudes signalized by Rogers and Husserl as those which allow access to the essences of phenomena and the meanings of expressed content. It was concluded, although random and unintendedly, that the key concepts in PCA and phenomenology referred to are correspondingly articulated, and, therefore, have similarities and approximations.