ABSTRACT
The author revisits the debate concerning the intertwinement of the phenomena, theory, and methods. The Ganzheitspsychologie approach, developed by the so-called Second School of Leipzig, was one of the first to investigate human psychological functioning by using the “dynamic whole with all its processes as the unit of analysis”. Ganzheitspsychologists were interested in studying processes by way of which the perception moves from a diffused and undifferentiated condition to a state of clarity in real time. The aim of the data collection was to gather detailed descriptions of the ways people make sense of their being in and in relation to their sociocultural context. It is often suggested that the generalized conceptual model of a psychological phenomenon that enables one to make theoretical generalizations can be constructed using a grounded theory approach advocated by Glaser and Strauss.
