Abstract
This paper explores the role of descriptions in the human sciences. Three assumptions concerning descriptions are outlined and challenged, including: the view that descriptions are marginal to our professional activities, that descriptions are unreliable and that descriptions without explanations do not lead to insight. The author introduces the idea of constraints on descriptions as essential to the development of phenomenology, both as a psychological and as a philosophical activity. It is proposed that the phenomenologist has much to gain from examining the use of naive descriptions of experiences within the clinical setting. Since the idea of constraints on descriptions has clinical applications, practitioners should reflect on the implications of considering psychotherapy and counselling as descriptive practices.
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