Existential-humanist movement
Humanistic psychology was
developed in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and
psychoanalysis, arising largely from existential philosophy and writers
like Jean-Paul Sartre and Søren Kierkegaard. By using
phenomenology, intersubjectivity and first-person categories, the
humanistic approach seeks to get a glimpse of the whole person and not
just the fragmented parts of the personality or cognitive functioning.
Humanism focuses on uniquely human issues and fundamental issues of
life, such as self-identity, death, aloneness, freedom, and meaning.
Some of the founding theorists behind this school of thought were
Abraham Maslow who formulated a hierarchy of human needs, Carl Rogers
who created and developed Client-centered therapy, and Fritz Perls who
helped create and develop Gestalt therapy. It has become so influential
as to be called the "third force" within psychology (preceded by
behaviorism and psychoanalysis
Humanistic psychology was
developed in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and
psychoanalysis, arising largely from existential philosophy and writers
like Jean-Paul Sartre and Søren Kierkegaard. By using
phenomenology, intersubjectivity and first-person categories, the
humanistic approach seeks to get a glimpse of the whole person and not
just the fragmented parts of the personality or cognitive functioning.
Humanism focuses on uniquely human issues and fundamental issues of
life, such as self-identity, death, aloneness, freedom, and meaning.
Some of the founding theorists behind this school of thought were
Abraham Maslow who formulated a hierarchy of human needs, Carl Rogers
who created and developed Client-centered therapy, and Fritz Perls who
helped create and develop Gestalt therapy. It has become so influential
as to be called the "third force" within psychology (preceded by
behaviorism and psychoanalysis