The text makes an introduction to the basic ideas of the Phenomenology like a philosophical and epistemological foundation to the practice of psychotherapy and most specifficaly, of the humanistic psychology. It begins by the historical genesis of the phenomenological ideas in Brentano, and continues by the elaboration of Phenomenology in the thinking of Husserl, presenting its mains concepts. ln this way, it stablishes a parallel between the phenomenological method and its application to psychotherapy. Finally, it makes a generic picture of the influence of Phenomenology and Existentialism to the "Humanistic Psychology", detaching the principais names ofthis movement.
Phenomenology; Humanistic Psychology; Psychotherapy; Conscience; Intentionality