Providing an individual psychological structure
In the further analysis,1 the researcher reads the “individual phenomenal description” and thinks it through. Here, Wertz1 says to think it through “psychologically,” which needs to be elaborated in light of the phenomenological reduction. The aim is to move from the pure description (which may be a goal in itself according to Husserl25) toward an interpretation that reveals the characteristics (structure) of “being the mother of an adolescent suffering from a spinal cord injury.” Here, the researcher is the tool in answering what the “individual phenomenal description” may tell us about the research question. When Wertz1 says that he thinks it through psychologically, he calls it an “insight that occurs as a spontaneous upsurge of a largely intuitive character rather than following of explicit rules.”1(p173) In this study, it means that allowing myself to be informed by the knowledge of “being the mother of an adolescent suffering from a spinal cord injury” as presented in the background and my own experiences of having mothered teenagers and having worked with paralyzed adolescents and their mothers, as part of my own hermeneutic context for interpreting my data.