Listening, empathy, and unconditional positive regard, not just as building blocks of
humanistic psychology, which was put forth in the last century, but also according to what our Prophet (sa) practiced.
She was elected President of the American Association of
Humanistic Psychology while operating a private practice and holding faculty positions at various colleges including USC.
A neuroscientific renaissance of
humanistic psychology, journal of
Humanistic Psychology, 55, 323-345.
Alternatives to the disease model approach to 'schizophrenia' which appeared in the Special Issue on Diagnostic Alternatives for the Journal of
Humanistic Psychology (Cooke and Kinderman, 2018), an issue which is '[...] dedicated to proposed alternatives to the current diagnostic paradigm.' (Kamens, Flanagan & Dean Robbins, 2018: p 3).
In this collection of essays, he draws on the traditions of American nature writing and
humanistic psychology to reflect on ecology, philosophy, and spirituality.
It can also be said that the
humanistic psychology, represented in the previous double issue by the work of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, is not the be-all-end-all of the field of psychology.
Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Association for
Humanistic Psychology (GB), Disabled People Against Cuts, Social Work Action Network, Alex McFadden, Salford TUC, Professors Richard Bentall, Peter Beresford, Ian Parker, Andrew Samuels and Ernesto Spinelli
Positive psychology therefore, as well as being used as a basis for the facilitation of leisure services for persons with disabilities, has joined
humanistic psychology as a theoretical foundation for recreational therapy practice.
Later, proponents of
humanistic psychology, such as Maslow (1962) and Rogers (1961) echoed this sentiment when they argued that psychology should focus on helping people achieve their full potential.
Knowles' work on andragogy, which is principally rooted in
humanistic psychology, with its assumption about adult learners being self-directed and responsible for their own learning3, also influences to focus on a predominantly humanistic solution2.
During the classes which were conducted by Charlotte Selver, later to become celebrated in
humanistic psychology, she asked her students to lie down and 'let the floor support you give to the floor.'