Extraspection

But whoever is interested in the purpose-striving behavior, the emotional life and the internal states of man and of some higher animals cannot travel the road of extraspection exclusively: he must follow the path of introspection.

In the same way as the alleged mental occurrences of other people are reduced to the description of physical bodies, introspection is reduced by means of imitation to extraspection or autoimitation.

But some of this awareness has indirect objects that are not mental ; some introspection is also extraspection.

Finally, and perhaps of most interest to readers of this journal, Moustakas offers us his version of how the deliberate introspecting of our extraspections bears on the task of phenomenological psychotherapy.

The perception of another body and of certain movements or modifications of it is essential to extraspection; and so one part of the objective constituent of any extraspective situation is the vidual and other sensa by which the foreign body appears to us in perception.