Editorial

Jane Fry, Janet Scammell and Sue Barker, for instance, consider the implications for the rigour of phenomenological research of the muddying of the methodological waters by the debate as to whether a literature review should be undertaken, given the risk of "contamination", while David Edwards, through the application of IPA to a clinical case study, demonstrates not only the experiential dynamics of schema therapy in the psychotherapeutic context, but the relationship between the method of schema therapy and that of phenomenology, and hence the means provided by the latter for clarifying various inconsistencies in the identification of schema modes - which, as defined "self states", he relates to what Merleau-Ponty termed "structure of consciousness". [...]in their respective reviews of two recent antiphenomenology publications, Max van Manen and Tom Nenon engage with both contemporary trends and the thrust of papers and editorial comment included in previous editions as they clarify the philosophical flaws, fallacies and fatal misconceptions in, on the one hand, the subjecting to "detailed critical analysis" of "the work of established ... methodologists" in contemporary phenomenological research, and, on the other hand, the proclaiming of "the end of phenomenology" by the so-called speculative realists. [...]while preparing the papers included in this edition for publication, there was the shock of hearing, by chance, that Lester Embree - a key figure over the past few decades in the advancement of phenomenology worldwide, and also a highly valued Advisor to the Editorial Board of the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, as well as a rigorous referee of various papers submitted to the journal and contributor of four of his own with their inimitable tone and thought-provoking thrust - had died six months earlier, in Boca Raton in Florida, on 19 January 2017, ten days after turning 79. Described by his colleagues at Florida Atlantic University as a "global ambassador for phenomenology" and, as such, "a great impressario", and, by Michael Barber and Tom Nenon, as "a great entrepreneur for phenomenology", Lester Embree had somehow come to take on the role of what he referred to as fostering the continuation of the phenomenological tradition. 1368256 About the Author Christopher R. Stones Professor Emeritus of Psychology Rhodes University, South Africa E-mail address: editor@ipjp.org Professor Christopher Stones, previously Head of the Department of Psycho