LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Humanistic Psychology
built 615 days ago
An international journal of human potential, self-actualization, the search for meaning and social change, the Journal of Humanistic Psychology was founded by Abraham Maslow and Anthony Sutich in 1961. It is the official journal of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and maintains a close connection with the Saybrook Institute where Thomas Greening, JHP's former editor, is a member of the faculty. You can visit the Saybrook Institute's web site at www.saybrook.edu
Source:
Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to realize a vision of the possible for humanity. AHP's membership comprises an international community of people with diverse talents and interests who are dedicated to the exploration and healing of the human mind, body and soul and to building a society that advances our ability to choose, grow and create. Membership is open to all.
Source:
Of the three organizations represented at Columbus, the Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP) is by far the largest. However, that is because AHP represents practitioners and lay persons who are not identified with academia. In terms of the numbers of members who are teacher/scholars in academic settings, AHP represents numbers comparable to the memberships of the Association for Humanistic Sociology and the Association for Humanist Anthropology.
Source:
The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research, and Practice edited by Kirk J. Schneider, James F. T. Bugental and J. Fraser Pierson (Sage) Humanism has a long and important history. The various emergences and subsidings of the discipline often follow social patterns not dealt with directly in this volume. American psychology has often been unwell to integrate philosophical concerns with therapeutic goals that go beyond academic research paradigms.
Source:
Humanistic Psychology is yet to develop cohesion as a body of theory, This is quite unlikely to happen as Humanistic Psychology is somewhat opposed to forming a unified theory of human development. Its strength lies in its ability to draw from very divergent range of disciplines, reflecting the eclectism and "chaos" which lies at the heart of human experience. What Humanistic Psychology perhaps need to do is to get over its attempts to become acceptable and "respectable" in the eyes of "the establishment" and no longer try to disguise itself as an empiricist science. What it needs to do is set new ground rules, rewrite the agenda and, most importantly, open its eyes to more, rather then less, influences, taking on different cultural perspectives and graduating from its seclusion on the Californian scene.
Source:
The present chapter will provide a pre-history and a history of humanistic psychology. The history will recount those significant figures in modern psychology and philosophy who provided the foundational ideas and approaches making humanistic psychology what it is today. The pre-history examines the millennia before modern humanistic psychology and identifies some of the many antecedent figures who suggested more philosophically adequate concepts of being human. This portion of the chapter must remain sketchy, leaping across centuries at a time, because of the enormous variety of philosophers, theologians, and literary figures who have contributed at least passing insights into what it means to be fully human. More time is spent on antiquity because foundations for later understanding were laid down then. Many Renaissance and modern efforts to restore a more adequate image of humanity have returned to early Greek and Christian texts for inspiration.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Humanistic Psychology