Comparer des méthodes

	Phénoménologie Descriptive	Analyse Thématique
Domaine	Qualitatif	Recherche qualitative
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1970s–1985 (systematised by Giorgi; refined 2009)	2006
Auteur d'origine	Amedeo Giorgi (adapting Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology)	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Type	Qualitative research method	Method
Source fondatrice	Giorgi, A. (2009). The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A Modified Husserlian Approach. Duquesne University Press. ISBN: 978-0820703992	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Alias	Giorgi method, empirical phenomenology, scientific phenomenology, Husserlian descriptive phenomenology	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Apparentées	6	3
Résumé	Descriptive Phenomenology, systematised by Amedeo Giorgi at Duquesne University, is a rigorous qualitative method for uncovering the general psychological structure of a lived experience. Drawing directly on Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, Giorgi's four-step procedure — epoché, whole reading, meaning-unit discrimination, and transformation into disciplinary language — produces a stable, replicable description of what makes an experience essentially what it is, without theoretical interpretation or causal explanation.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.