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	Analisi Fenomenologica Interpretativa Critica	Analisi Tematica
Campo	Qualitativo	Ricerca qualitativa
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1996 (IPA); critical variant explicitly theorised in the 2000s–2010s	2006
Ideatore	Jonathan A. Smith (IPA); critical extension developed within the IPA tradition by Smith, Flowers, Larkin and associated scholars	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
Tipo	Qualitative research design and analytic approach	Method
Fonte seminale	Smith, J. A., Flowers, P., & Larkin, M. (2009). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Theory, Method and Research. Sage. ISBN: 978-1412908344	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
Alias	Critical IPA, CIPA, critical-lens IPA, critical interpretive phenomenology	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
Correlati	5	3
Sintesi	Critical Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Critical IPA) is a qualitative approach that combines the double-hermeneutic interpretive work of standard IPA with an explicit critical lens, examining not only how participants make sense of their experience but also how power, social structures, ideology, and systemic inequalities shape that experience. It retains the ideographic, person-centred rigour of IPA while asking whose interests are served and what is silenced or constrained.	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.