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 humanistic psychology
surface form: third force psychology
associatedWith American Psychological Association
surface form: American Psychological Association Division 32
contrastsWith behaviorism
psychoanalysis
critiques mechanistic models of behavior
overreliance on laboratory experiments
deemphasizes determinism
pathology
developedIn United States of America
surface form: 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
Client-Centered Therapy
surface form: 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 humanistic psychology
this entity surface form: motivational interviewing
humanistic psychology alsoKnownAs humanistic psychology
this entity surface form: third force psychology
hierarchy of needs field humanistic psychology
Toward a Psychology of Being subject humanistic psychology
this entity surface form: being-psychology
Ann Maslow influenced humanistic psychology
subject surface form: Abraham Maslow
behaviorism contrastsWith humanistic psychology
subject surface form: Behaviorism
this entity surface form: Humanistic psychology