Abstract
This paper explores a contemporary European development in research into first person accounts of experience, called psychophenomenology (Vermersch 2004), that offers enhancements to phenomenological interviewing. It is a form of guided introspection that seeks to develop finely-grained first-person accounts by using distinctions in language, internal sensory representations and imagery that have been incorporated from neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) (Bandler & Grinder 1975a). It is also a participative, relational and developmental form of interviewing, in the sense that the interviewee can gain significant insight into their experience; the process is not concerned purely with data gathering.