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.

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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.

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

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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.

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