Opening the POD: A therapeutic application of Husserl's phenomenology.

Draws a distinction between meaning-oriented and object-oriented therapies. The method of E. Husserl (1931) is directly applied to a wide range of psychological problems and a phenomenon becomes manifest that is characterized as phenomenologically observable dictate (POD). This POD is the source of a variety of undesirable cognitions, feelings, and memories. After the isolation of a POD is accomplished, a specific technique can be used to address and dispose of it as though it were a physical object. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)