Arts Based Research
"The techniques involved are not some esoteric branch of witchcraft that must be reserved for those with PhD degrees in psychology. When the ideas are made sufficiently concrete and explicit, the scientific foundations of psychology can be grasped by sixth-grade children." (Miller, 1969, on accessibility of phenomenology) While this week has not been entirely about accessibility, this is an issue that has been brought up time and again. What should people have access to? What can they understand? Is there potential danger involved in making "Everything" accessible to the masses in terms of psychology or, in Miller's case, phenomenology? The truth is, everything has room to be dangerous. Fizzy drinks, warm blankets, walks outside... These are not weapons but people manage to hurt or even kill themselves with them every day. We can't pack people up in cotton wool and expect things to go well. I feel like the same t...