The development of an approach to the experience of stress in people with borderline personality disorder is an important challenge, based on the selection of a methodology that allows capturing the chronology and characteristics of the particular experience that occurs during the development of a stressful situation. For the present research, microphenomenological interviews with 3 participants presenting a borderline personality disorder were considered, in order to favor the articulation of a structure of the lived experience, organized from the prereflective perspective. The theoretical and methodological assumptions considered are based on the approaches of Pierre Vermesch (1994) and their respective adaptation to the clinical context developed by Petitmengin (2006, 2007). The microphenomenological interview, starts from the assumption that much of the experience, goes unnoticed in ...

In the present article an approach to the central approaches to the hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, as a way of approaching the particular subjective experience, is made. It is on the basis of philosophers such as Husserl (2012), Heidegger (2008) and Merleau-Ponty (1945), that possibilities of approaching the construction of reality at a particular level have arisen, which is an interesting field of study. This study makes a systematic review of 4 ways of approaching the particular experience from a phenomenological and hermeneutic dimension, the methodologies considered are: The human sciences paradigm for phenomenological study by Max Van Manen (1990); Descriptive phenomenological method in psychology by Amedeo Giorgi (1986, 2009); Microphenomenological interview by Claire Petitmengin (2006) and The Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) by Jonathan Smith and Mike Osb...