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“Perhaps，as Buber suggests, an I-Thou relation is a more fundamental way of accessing the way things are than an I-it relation. In any case, there are, I suggest, no good grounds for assuming that the impersonal, objective stance is the only one through which things are adequately revealed.” (p. 243)

One answer philosophy professor Matthew Ratcliffe (University of York) provides for the circularity that arises from assuming that a theoretical stance of the world should have priority over experience:

"Why should certain cognitive processes have authority?
Because the world is such and such way.
Why do you think the world is like that?
Because those processes reveal it to be."
(ebd.)

Ratcliffe, M. (2007). Rethinking commonsense psychology - A critique of folk psychology, theory of mind and simulation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

The author also wrote an account of the phenomenology of depression, claiming that "despite the vast amount of research that has been conducted into the causes and treatment of depression, the experience of depression remains poorly understood," offering a new view.

Ratcliffe, M. (2014). Experiences of depression: A study in phenomenology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (click here for chapter 1)

I haven't read the book, yet, but maybe it's not so new to Gestalt therapists...