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phenomenological psychology, in phenomenology, a discipline forming a bridge between psychology and philosophy. It is one of the regional ontologies, or studies of the kinds of fundamental being, that is concerned with what it means to experience a certain thing (e.g., to experience fear) and with what the a priori, or essential and universally applicable, structures of such an experience are. It is the ontology that has been most thoroughly dealt with by phenomenologists. Although it is built upon the findings of phenomenological analyses of the structure of consciousness and of the world in general, it is not concerned with ...(100 of 199 words)