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Humanistic psychologyHumanistic psychology is concerned with the subjective experience of human beings and views using quantitative methods in the study of the human mind and behaviour as misguided and instead stresses qualitative research. It emerged in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. It stresses a phenomenological view of human experience and seeks to understand human beings and their behavior by conducting qualitative research. The humanistic approach has its roots in existentialist thought (see Heidegger, Nietzsche, Sartre and Kierkegaard). The founding theorists behind this school of thought are Abraham Maslow, who presented a 'hierarchy of human needs'; Carl Rogers, who created and developed 'client centered therapy' and Fritz and Laura Perls who helped create and develop Gestalt therapy. Gestalt psychologists claim to consider behaviour holistically - "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" - although critics such as Karl Popper have presented forceful arguments against the proposition that entities can be apprehended as wholes. Humanistic psychologists use a narrow definition of humanism. The American Humanist Association, for example, has had as members many psychologists whom humanistic psychologists would not consider humanist, B. F. Skinner being perhaps the most prominent example.This article is adapted from from Wikipedia All Wikipedia article text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License A Way of Being by Carl Rogers Ken Wilber: Thought As Passion (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Pyschology) by Frank Visser Native American Postcolonial Psychology (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by Eduardo Duran Man for Himself : An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics by Erich Fromm The Carl Rogers Reader by Carl Rogers The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (An Esalen Book) by Abraham Harold Maslow The Unheard Cry for Meaning : Psychotherapy and Humanism by Viktor Emil Frankl Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd Edition by Abraham H. Maslow Revisioning Transpersonal Theory : A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by Jorge N. Ferrer The Fundamentals of Family Mediation (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by John M. Haynes The Cosmic Game: Explorations of the Frontiers of Human Consciousness (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by Stanislav Grof Psychosynthesis: A Psychology of the Spirit (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by John Firman Integrative Brief Therapy: Cognitive, Psychodynamic, Humanistic & Neurobehavioral Approaches (Practical Therapist Series) by John Preston Demystifying the Autistic Experience: A Humanistic Introduction for Parents, Caregivers, and Educators by William Stillman Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think: Bringing the Psychotherapeutic Engagement into the Living Moment by James F. T. Bugental Recent Humanistic_psychology related patents From USPTO: |