1990-Present
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Professor of Counseling Psychology
Attallah Chair in Humanistic Psychology
Division of Counseling Psychology
1987-1990
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Fullerton, California
Professor of Counseling
Department of Counseling/School Psychology
1988-1990
FULLERTON COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICES
Fullerton, California
Clinical Supervisor
1975-1987
SAYBROOK INSTITUTE, San Francisco, California
Faculty Member, Psychology (1975-1987)
President (1976-1986)
Academic Dean (1975-1976)
1981-1987
PRIVATE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRACTICE (Part time), Berkeley, California
Individual psychotherapy and clinical supervision
1973-1975
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Irvine, California
Director, Center for Counseling and Special Services
1972-1973
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, Missouri
Associate Director, Student Services
1968-1972
GODDARD COLLEGE, Plainfield, Vermont
Faculty Member, Psychology, Residential and Adult Degree Programs (1968-19720
Director of Admissions (1970-1971)
1962-1967 LOOMIS SCHOOL, Windsor, Connecticut
Faculty Member and Chaplain
EDUCATION:
UNION GRADUATE SCHOOL, Ph.D., Yellow Springs, Ohio 1972 Field: Psychology Supervisor: Goodwin Watson
HARTFORD SEMINARY FOUNDATION, M.A., Hartford, Connecticut 1968 Field: Psychology and Religion
YALE UNIVERSITY, B.D., New Haven, Connecticut 1962 Field: Pastoral Counseling
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, B.A., St. Louis, Missouri 1959 Field: Religious Studies
PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIPS
University of California, Irvine, Medical Services 1973-1974
Washington County Mental Health Services, Montpelier,Vermont 1971-1972
Waterbury State Hospital, Waterbury, Vermont 1971-1972
Pastoral Counseling Internships:
Norwich State Hospital, Norwich, Connecticut 1967-1968
Hartford General Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut 1965
BOOKS:
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2004). Practice and the human sciences: The case for a judgment-based practice of care. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988). Narrative knowing and the human sciences. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1983). Methodology for the human sciences: Systems of inquiry. Albany: State University of New York Press. .
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1976). An existential-phenomenological approach to education. San Francisco: Freeperson.
JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS:
Polkinghorne, D. E. (in press). Language and meaning: Data collection in qualitative research. The Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (in press). Validity and narrative research as social science. The future of narrative research [Special issue] Qualitative Inquiry.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2004). Ricoeur, Narrative and personal identity. In C. Lightfoot, C. Lalonde, & M. J. Chandler (Eds.). Changing conceptions of psychological life (49-70). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2004). Narrative therapy and postmodernism. In L. E. Angus & J. McLeod (Eds.). The handbook of narrative and psychotherapy: Practice, theory, and research (pp. 53-67). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Bensimon, E. M., Polkinghorne, D.E., Bauman, G. L., & Vallejo, E. (2004). Doing research that makes a difference. Journal of Higher Education, 75(1), 105-126
Bensimon, E. M. & Polkinghorne, D. (2003). The accountability side of equity, Diversity Digest, 7(1,2).
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003). Validaton in physical, organic, and human realms. In J. Lindén & P. Szybek (Eds.). Validation of knowledge claims in human science (11-24): Lyon: L’Interdisciplinaire.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003). Generalization in human science: Issues of external validity. In J. Lindén & P. Szybek (Eds.). Validation of knowledge claims in human science (121-149): Lyon: L’Interdisciplinaire.
Patriquin, L., Bensimon, E. M., Polkinghorne, D. E., Bauman, G., Bleza, M. G., Oliverex, P., & Soto, M. (2003). Post-tenure review: The disparity between intent and implementation. The review of higher education, 26(3), 275-297.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003). Brentano’s Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. In R. Steinberg (Ed.). The anatomy of impact: What makes the great works of psychology great. (pp. 43-70). Washington, CD: American Psychological Association Press.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003). Forward. In M. McCabe, The paradox of loss: Toward a relational theory of grief: (pp. xi-xiv). Westport, CT: Praeger.
Polkinghorne, D. E., & Vernon, R. F. (in press) The real self in relationship. [Review of The psychotherapy relationship: Theory, research, and practice]. Psycholotherapy Research.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2001). Self and humanistic psychology. In K. J. Schneider, J. F. T. Bugental, & J. F. Pierson (Eds.). The Handbook of humanistic psychology: Leading edges in theory, research, and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2001). Managing payments for psychological care. In B. D. Slife, R. N. Williams, and S. H. Barlow (Eds.). Critical issues in psychotherapy: Translating new ideas into practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2000). Inquiry in the pragmatic and hermeneutic traditions. Theory and Psychology, 10(4), 453-479.
McCabe, M., & Polkinghorne, D. E. (in press). Unending endings: A case study of grief. In C. T. Fischer (Ed.). Qualitative research in action.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2000). Hermeneutics In The Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2000). Narrative Therapy. In The Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Books.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2000). The unconstructed self. Culture and Psychology, 6(2), 264-272.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999). Traditional research and psychotherapy practice. The Journal of Clinical Psychology, 55(12), 1429-1440.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999). More than a manual for self-understanding. [Review of Understanding human nature: An owner's manual]. Theory and Psychology, 9(1), 143-144.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999). A multidimensional approach to psychology. [Review of The cure of souls: Science, values, and psychotherapy]. Contemporary Psychology, 44(6).
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999). Forward. In J. Martin & J. Sugarman, The psychology of human possibility and constraint (pp. vii-xiv). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1998). Gendlin's intricacy. [Review of Experiencing and the Creatiln of Meaning and Language beyond Postmodernism: Saying and thinking in Gendlin's philosophy]. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 29(2), 249-253
Polkinghorne, D. E., & Gribbons, B. C. (1998). Applications of qualitative research strategies to school psychology research problems. In C. R. Reynolds & T. B. Gutkin (Eds.), Handbook of school psychology (3rd.ed.) (pp. 108-136). New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1998). Narrative Psychologie und Geschichtsbewu˘tsein: Beziehungen und Perspektiven [Narrative Psychology and Historical Consciousness: Relationships and Perspectives]. In J. Straub (Ed.), Erzaehlung, Identitaet und historisches Bewusstsein. Die psychologische Konstruktionvon Zeit und Geschichte (pp. 3-22). Frankfurt on Main: Suhrkamp-Verlag.
Sells, J. N., Goodyear, R. K., Lichtenberg, J. W., & Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997) Relationship of supervisor and trainee gender to in-session verbal behavior and ratings of trainee skills. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 44(4), 1-7.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997). Psychotherapy of the felt sense [Review of Focusing-oriented psychotherapy: A manual of the experiential method]. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 28(1), 118-122
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997). Reporting qualitative research as practice. In W. G. Tierney & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Representation and the text: Reframing the narrative voice. (pp. 3-22). Albany: State University of New York Press.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997). Narrative and personal identity. In Phenomenology and narrative psychology (pp. 31-68). Pittsburgh: Duquesne University.
Clark, F., Carlson, M., & Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997). The legitimacy of life history and narrative approaches in the study of occupation. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 51(4), 313-317.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996). Use of biography in the development of applicable knowledge. Ageing and Society, 16, 721-745.
Ruth, J. -E., Birren, J. E., & Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996). The projects of life reflected in autobiographies of old age. Ageing and society, 16, 677-699.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996). McIntosh's recovery of self. [Review of Self, person, world: The interplay of conscious and unconscious in human life]. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 27(1), 101-103.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996). Explorations of narrative identity. Psychological Inquiry, 7(4), 363-367.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996). Transformative narratives: From passive to agentic life plots. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 50(4), 299-305.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996). Narrative knowing and the study of lives. In J. Birren, G. Kenyon, J. E. Ruth, J. J. F. Schroots, & T. Svensson (Eds.), Aging and biography: Exploration in adult development (pp. 77-99). New York: Springer.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995). Recovering Merleau-Ponty [Review of Merleau-Ponty in contemporary perspective]. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 26(1), 131-133.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995). Piaget and Derrida's contributions for a constructivist psychotherapy. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 8(4), 269-282.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995). The complexity of agency. [Review of Becoming an agent: Patterns and dynamics for shaping your life]. Contemporary Psychology,40(8), 754-756.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995). An existential therapist's perspective on Ruth. In G. Corey (Ed.), Case approach to counseling and psychotherapy (4th ed.) (pp. 100-117). (Replacement for 1990 chapter.)
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995).A path of understanding for psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 14(2), 128-145.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995). Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 8(1), 12-28. Reprinted in Hatch, J. A. & Wisniewski, R. (Eds.). (1995). Life history and narrative (pp. 5-23). London: Falmer.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994). Narrative approaches in psychology: Theories, methods, and applications. History and Philosophy of Psychology Bulletin, 6(2), 11-17.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994). Reaction to special section on qualitative research in counseling process and outcome. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 41, 510-512.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994). Research methodology in humanistic psychology. In F. Wertz (Ed.), The Humanistic Movement: Recovering the person in psychology (pp. 105-128). Lake Forth, FL: Gardner. (Reprint of 1992 article..
Polkinghorne, D. E., & Ramirez, J. V. (1992). Students' ways of knowing: The grade's the thing. Creative Teaching, 5(1), 1-4.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1992). A postmodern epistemology of practice. In S. Kvale (Ed.), Psychology and postmodernism (pp. 146-165). London: Sage..
Hoshmand, L. T., & Polkinghorne, D. E. (1992). Redefining the science-practice relationship and professional training. American Psychologist, 47, 55-66.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1992). Research methodology in humanistic psychology. The Humanistic Psychologist, 20(2&3), 218-242.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1991). Qualitative procedures for counseling research. In C. E. Watkins & L. J. Schneider (Eds.), Research in counseling (pp. 163-207). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1991). Narrative and self-concept. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 1(2 & 3), 135-153..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1991). Two conflicting calls for methodological reform. The Counseling Psychologist, 19, 103-114.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990). Language and qualitative research. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 10(2), 3-24.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990). An existential therapist's perspective on Ruth. In G. Corey (Ed.), Case approach to counseling and psychotherapy (3rd ed.) (pp. 91-103). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990). Psychology after philosophy. In R. N. Williams & J. E. Faulconer (Eds.), Reconsidering psychology: Perspectives from Continental philosophy (pp. 92-115). Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990). Action theory approaches to career research. In R. A. Young & W. A. Borgen (Eds.), Methodological approaches to the study of career (pp. 87-105). New York: Praeger.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990). Episteme. In R. P. Howell (Ed.), Beyond literacy: The second Gutenberg revolution (pp. 67-72). New York: Norton.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1989). Changing conversations about human science. In S. Kvale (Ed.), Issues of validity in qualitative social research (pp. 13-45). Stockholm, Sweden: Studentlitteratur. (Reprint of 1986 article..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1989). Knowledge and the practicing disciplines. Perspectives: The Journal of the School of Human Development and Community Service, 1, 1-7.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1989). Reporting qualitative research. Methods, 3, 63-85.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1989). Incarnate phenomenological reflection [Review of Bodily reflective modes: A phenomenological method for psychology]. Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 9(1), 48-51.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1989). Phenomenological research methods. In R. S. Valle & S. Halling (Eds.), Existential-phenomenological perspectives in psychology (pp. 41-60). New York: Plenum..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988). The active-agent model of human behavior: Implications for theory and practice. Counseling and Values, 28(2), 104-107.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988). The existentialism of early Foucault [Review of Dream and existence]. Contemporary Psychology, 33(5), 428-430.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1986). Conceptual validity in a nontheoretical human science. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 17(2), 129-149.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1986). Changing conversations about human science. Saybrook Review, 6(1), 1-32.
Blanton, J. and Polkinghorne, D. E. (1986). A prospective for human science. Methods, 1(1), 63-100.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1984). Further extensions of methodological diversity for counseling psychology. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 31(4), 416-429.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1983). The reductions and existence: Bases for epistemology. In A. T. Tymieniecka and C. O. Schrag (Eds.), Foundations of morality, human rights and the human sciences (pp. 283-292). Dordrecht: Reidel.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1982). What makes research humanistic. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 22(3), 47-54.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1980). Phenomenological psychotherapy. In. R. Herin. (Ed.), The psychotherapy handbook (pp. 466-470). New York: Meridian.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1978). Duquesne Studies, Vol 3 [Review of Duquesne studies in phenomenolgoical psychology (Vol 3)]. Phenomenological Bulletin, 5, 79-84.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1977). Phenomenological attunement in phenomenological research.. Proceedings of The Conference on Theory and Practice in Applied Phenomenology. University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate School of Management.
PRESENTATIONS:
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2004 August). Practice and the Human Sciences. Paper presented at the 28th International Congress of Psychology. Beijing, China
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2004 July). Practice of psychotherapy in a technified culture. Paper presented at the 112th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, December). Narrative research and qualitative analysis. Invited address at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, December). Qualitative evaluation methods. Invited address at Lund University. Lund, Sweden.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, December). Narrative configuration and qualitative analysis. Invited address at Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, November). Doing phenomenological research. Invited address at Umeå University. Umeå,Sweden.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, November). Lived temporality and narrative research. Invited address University of Oslo, Olso, Norway.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, October). Ricoeur and narrative research. Invited address at Borås University. Borås, Sweden.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, September). The future of qualitative research. Keynote address at opening of The Center for Qualitative Research, Bournemouth University, England.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, April). Using a scorecard approach for achieving equitable and excellent student outcomes. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Irvine, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, March). The diversity scorecard approach: Bringing about equitable and exceptional outcomes through communities of practice, situated, learning, and data driven inquiry. Presentation at the National Convention of the American Association of Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
Bensimon, E. M. & Polkinghorne, D. E. (2003, January). Research that makes a difference: Reversing inequities in educational outcomes. Framing Session presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Seattle, WA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2002 August). Heidegger and the philosophy of psychology: Zollikon Serminars. Invited paper presented at the 110th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2002, June). Zollikon Seminars. Workshop presented at the 2002 Advanced Nursing Institute for Heideggerian Hermeneutical Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2001, August). Everyday Knowing and Psychotherapy Practice. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2001, July). The new sciences and positive psychology. Keynote address presented at the 28th InterAmerican Congress of Psychology, Santiago, Chile.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (2000, July). A hermeneutic pragmatism: Research as problem solving. Invited paper presented at the 27th International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999, October). Managing payments for psychological care. Paper presented at the Symposium on Critical Issues in Psychotherapy: Translating New Ideas into Practice, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999, August). Ways of knowing the self. Paper presented at the 107th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999, August). Incarnate Intentionality. Paper presented at the 107th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999, June). Pragmatism and qualitative research. Paper presented at the Symposium on Qualitative Research, Perugia, Italy.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1999, April). Narrative analysis and semiotics. Paper presented at the 1999 American Educational Research Association Meeting, Montreal.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1998, August). Application in the hermeneutic and pragmatic traditions. Paper presented at the 106th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1998, August). Hermeneutics and embodied knowing. Paper presented at the 106th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1998, March). The postmodernisms and the psychotherapies. Paper presented at the 72th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997, September). Serving the individual students with generalized knowledge. Invited address presented at the Indiana University, School of Education, Bloomington: IN.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997, August). Postmodernism in psychotherapy. Paper presented at the 105th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997, August). Beyond realism and constructionism: The embodied knower. Paper presented at the 105th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Chicago.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997, March). A narrative understanding of moral development: Mother-Child. 10th Annual Occupational Science Symposium, Los Angeles
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1997, March). The application of qualitative findings. Paper presented at the 1997 American Educational Research Association Meeting, Chicago.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996, August). Postmodern psychotherapy and the return to phenomenological theory. Paper presented at the 104th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Canada.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996, March). Narrative and personal identity. Invited address presented at the Fourteenth Annual Symposium of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center of Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1996, February). Innovations in qualitative research. Invited address presented at the University of Notre Dame, Department of Psychology, Notre Dame: IN.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995, June). Objectivity in narrative interpretation. Paper presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the Society of Psychotherapy Research, Vancouver, Canada.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995, June). Narrative psychology and historical consciousness: Relationships and perspectives. Paper presented at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1995, April). Reporting qualitative research as practice. Paper presented at the 1995 American Educational Research Association Meeting, San Francisco.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994, August). On psychotherapy--Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, and Piaget. Paper presented at the 102th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994, August). Limits of a knowledge about practice. Paper presented at the 102th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994, August). Reconstructing an abode for psychology. Division 24 Presidental Address presented at the 102th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994, July). Narrative psychology and the understanding of human lives. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994, April). Redefining the science-practice relationship and professional training. Keynote address presented at Seventh Annual Great Lakes Regional Conference for Counseling Psychology, Notre Dame, IN.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1994, April). Narrative Life-Stories and Student Development. Paper presented at the 1994 American Educational Research Association Meeting, New Orleans.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1993, June). The practice of psychotherapy as situated action. Paper presented at the Constructed Realities: Therapy, Theory, and Research Conference, Lofoten, Norway.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1993, February). Research in a post-modern context. Invited Address presented at the University of Georgia, Department of Education, Athens, GA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1993, January). Narrative configuration in qualitative analysis. Paper presented at the Qualitative Research in Education Conference, Athens, GA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1992, August). Qualitative research: An agenda. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1992, August). Research and practice: Their separate roles. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1992, August). Humanistic psychology and research methodology. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1992, March). Narrative theory. Paper presented at the 4th Annual International Conference of The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of California, Irvine.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1991, August). Relationship and psychotherapy. Paper presented at the 99th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1991, August). Positivism, postmodernism, and practice. Paper presented at the 99th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1991, April). Metaphorical Understanding and Psychotherapy. Paper presented at the 71st Annual Convention of the Western Psychology Association, San Francisco. (Theory-oriented paper).
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1991, April). Generalizability and qualitative research: External validty. Paper present at the 1991 American Educational Research Association Meeting, Chicago.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990, November). Narrative and human science research. Invited address presented at the Tappan Invitational Conference on the Future of Humanistic Psychology, sponsored by Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990, October). Narrative and self-concept. Invited address presented at the symposium "Narrative Studies in the Social Sciences" sponsored by the New England Symposia, Cambridge, MA..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1990, April). Training in qualitative designs and counseling practice. Invited address presented at University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Education, Los Angeles.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1989, August). The role of narrative in postmodern human science. Invited paper presented at the Eighth International Human Science Research Conference, Aarhus, Denmark.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1989, August). The use of natural language in counseling psychology research. Paper presented at the 97th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 315 683).
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, September). Action theory approaches to career reseach. Paper presented at the Research Workshop "Methodological Diversity and the Study of Career" co-sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, August). Postmodern validity and qualitative research. Three lectures presented at the Nordiska Forskarkurser "The Question of Validity in Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences," Uppsala, Sweden.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, July). Central debates in philosophy of science. Paper presented at the Oregon Health Sciences University workshop "Research in a Practice Discipline," Portland.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, June. Investigating moral action. Paper presented at the Seventh International Human Science Research Conference, Seattle.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, April). A new look at "theory" in counseling practice. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Convention of the Western Psychology Association, San Francisco.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, April). Existential psychotherapy and social values. Invited paper presented at the 68th Annual Convention of the Western Psychology Association, San Francisco.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, March). The use of narrative in psychology. Four lectures as Visiting Professor in Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, January). The use of qualitative research in counseling practice. Paper presented at the Counseling Psychology Conference of Division 17 of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1988, January). New directions in paradigms for behavioral research. Invited address at the University of Utah, Department of Educational Psychology, Salt Lake City..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1987, November). Conducting phenomenological research. Invited address at the University of Southern California, Department of Counseling Psychology, Los Angeles..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1987, August). Narrative discourse and meaning. Paper presented at the 95th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New York..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1987, August). Practical reasoning and human action. Paper presented at the 95th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, New York..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1987, August). Language and qualitative research. Paper presented at the Symposium for Qualitative Research in Psychology, Perugia, Italy.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1987, July). The self as narrative. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, San Francisco, CA..
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1987, May). Discourse and qualitative methods. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Human Research Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1986, October). Characteristics of discourse and psychotherapy research. Invited address at Brigham Young University, Department of Psychology.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1986, January). Narrative structure and qualitative research. Invited address at Silverman Center,Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1985, August). Narrative knowing and the practicing psychologist. Paper presented at the 93rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 267 338).
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1985, May). Research and meaning: words, sentences, and discourse. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Human Research Conference, Alberta, Canada.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1985, February). Qualitative research methods. Invited address at University of Notre Dame, Department of Psychology.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1984, August). Psychological publishing from the point of view of the academic institution. Paper presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting of American Psychological Association, Toronto.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1984, May). Linguistic attributes of qualitative research. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Human Research Conference, Carrollton, Georgia.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1983, August). Contemporary linguistic philosophy: Grounds for qualitative research. Paper presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of American Psychological Association, Anaheim, CA.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1983, July). What makes psychotherapy humanistic? Invited paper presented at the 19th Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Quito, Ecuador.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1983, May). Human science and moral action. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Human Research Conference, Pittsburgh.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1983, April). What method for the human sciences. Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Western Psychological Association, San Francisco.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1983, April). Embedded nonverbal assumptions in work groups. Paper presented at the 6th Scientific Meeting of the A. K. Rice Institute, San Francisco.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1981, May). Critical theory and psychotherapy. Invited address at the Boston Forum for the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology of Man, Boston.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1981, April). The possibility of a human science. Four lectures as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1980, September). A judicial model of dissertation evidence and argument. Paper presented at the 88th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Montreal.
Polkinghorne, D. E. (1980, May). The other as an "object" of consciousness. Invited address at the Symposium in Phenomenological Psychiatry, Boston.