humanistic psychology

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Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective that emphasizes individual free will, personal meaning, and self-actualization, focusing on human potential and subjective experience rather than pathology.

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instanceOf humanistic approach
psychological perspective
school of psychology
alsoKnownAs third force psychology
associatedWith American Psychological Association Division 32
contrastsWith behaviorism
psychoanalysis
critiques mechanistic models of behavior
overreliance on laboratory experiments
deemphasizes determinism
pathology
developedIn United States
emergedIn 1950s
emphasizes human potential
individual free will
personal meaning
self-actualization
subjective experience
focusesOn conscious experience
personal growth
psychological well-being
self-development
influenced client-centered therapy
humanistic education
humanistic psychotherapy
organizational development
person-centered therapy
positive psychology
influencedBy Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Gestalt psychology
Kurt Goldstein
Rollo May
existential philosophy
phenomenology
keyConcept authenticity
here-and-now experience
personal responsibility
self-actualization
self-concept
unconditional positive regard
methodologyIncludes case studies
phenomenological methods
qualitative research
opposes reductionism
stresses holistic view of the person
subjective meaning-making
viewsHumansAs capable of growth
goal-directed
inherently good

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Viktor Frankl movement humanistic psychology
Client-Centered Therapy influenced motivational interviewing
linked to: humanistic psychology
humanistic psychology alsoKnownAs third force psychology
linked to: humanistic psychology
hierarchy of needs field humanistic psychology
Toward a Psychology of Being subject being-psychology
linked to: humanistic psychology
Abraham Maslow influenced humanistic psychology
subject linked to: Ann Maslow
Behaviorism contrastsWith Humanistic psychology
subject linked to: behaviorism
linked to: humanistic psychology