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Trump, the Coronavirus Pandemic, Asian American Xenophobia, and Humanistic Psychology:
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2020Co-Authors: Elliot BenjaminAbstract:This article discusses the relationship of Humanistic Psychology to what the author perceives as the dangerous leadership and rhetoric of United States President Donald Trump, in particular in rega...
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Progressive Politics and Humanistic Psychology in the Trump/Coronavirus Era
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2020Co-Authors: Elliot BenjaminAbstract:In this article, the author discusses the relationship of progressive politics to Humanistic Psychology in the Trump/Coronavirus era. The harsh realities of personal fears and severe challenges to ...
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Humanistic Psychology and the Mental Health Worker
Journal of Psychology Research, 2012Co-Authors: Elliot BenjaminAbstract:INTRODUCTIONIn this day and age, Humanistic Psychology and the mental health worker are in a precarious relationship. The mental health worker, especially in contemporary Western society, is expected to deliver treatment based upon "empirically supported" behavioral objectives, is generally working for a mental health agency funded by the state and utilizing strict psychiatric classification guidelines, and has been educated to be familiar and appreciative of the widespread usage and "benefits" of psychiatric medications. Where one might ask is there room for the quaint old notions of empathy, unconditional positive regard, authenticity, genuineness, etc. that were introduced by Carl Rogers, one of the key founders of Humanistic Psychology, over a half century ago? (Benjamin, 2008a; Elkins, 2007, 2009a; Rogers, 1961).The mental health worker, as I am using the term, typically is a young or middle-aged adult with or without a college degree, who is working with mentally disturbed children or adults in a mental health program. If the mental health worker has a college degree, he or she is likely to have majored in a Psychology related field. It is somewhat ironic that in my own case, having decided to become a mental health worker after semi-retiring from a long career as a mathematics professor, in spite of all my esoteric ideas and writings about Humanistic Psychology, my official mental health worker classifications were Behavioral Specialist, Direct Support Worker, and Mental Health Rehabilitation Technician/Community. These do not sound like very Humanistic titles; the titles reflect the current thinking in our modern "scientific" world of Psychology. I was trained as a mental health worker to apply strict behaviorist Psychology to the clients who were in my care, in particular Applied Behavioral Analysis (Kearney, 2008).How does a mental health worker with a Humanistic Psychology orientation survive in today's mental health system? In David Elkins' recent Journal of Humanistic Psychology article entitled.The Medical Model in Psychotherapy: Its Limitations and Failures, he concluded with the following:It is radical to suggest that the best way to deal with the medical model is to reject it completely. However, in our day, psychotherapy is under unprecedented attack by the very institutions that should be supporting it. The medical establishment has little respect for what we do, and the health insurance industry would like nothing better than to turn psychotherapy into a "quick-fix" center owned by Wall Street or replace it with an inexpensive pill....It may be time for Humanistic psychologists to start another revolution in Psychology. This time the revolution would involve rejecting the medical model, breaking away from the medical establishment, and telling managed care and the health insurance industry that we will no longer require their services. (p. 82)I find Elkins' portrayal of the damaging effects of both the medical model and managed care, as well as his recommended remedies of preserving Humanistic Psychology (Elkins, 2007, 2008, 2009a, 2009b) to be timely, cogent, and tremendously important for Humanistic psychologists to pay very careful attention to. However, I believe there are rich alternative contexts where Humanistic Psychology can be practiced, one of which is the context of community mental health fieldwork; i.e. mental health work in the homes and communities in which clients live and work, practiced by mental health workers who are not licensed psychotherapists, of which I was one. From my own experiences as a mental health worker, in particular over a three year span from 2007 to 2010, I found that most of the mental health workers in my agencies had a basic "Humanistic" deep down desire to relate genuinely and caringly to their clients, but were saddled with an overwhelming amount of behavioral expectations from their supervisors and agencies. In order to keep their jobs they had little choice but to go along with the required behavioral programs, counting the number of targeted behaviors exhibited, checking off the extensive lists of treatment data sheets, monitoring their clients taking their prescribed psychiatric medications, and accounting for how they spent all their time with clients in accordance with the behavioral objectives of the program. …
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Humanistic Psychology and the Mental Health Worker
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2010Co-Authors: Elliot BenjaminAbstract:This article discusses the precarious relationship of Humanistic Psychology to the mental health worker in our current managed care, empirically based, behaviorally focused, excessively medication-oriented mental health system. Some of the challenges, frustrations, and potential successes of bringing real and nurturing human relationships in the context of Humanistic Psychology into the day-to-day involvements with clients for the mental health worker are described. Some of the particular ethical dilemmas of the mental health worker attempting to work in this context of Humanistic Psychology are discussed, inclusive of the enormous difficulties of bringing Humanistic Psychology into the all pervasive medical model that controls mental health practice in our society. Through a series of case descriptions, the author provides a narrative account of his own experiences in attempting to bring the authentic nurturing relationship context of Humanistic Psychology into his various mental health worker jobs. The ...
Amedeo Giorgi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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remaining challenges for Humanistic Psychology
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2005Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:The Humanistic Psychology movement that began in the late 1950s and blossomed in the 1960s was a necessary corrective to the mainstream Psychology of that era. Primarily, the Humanistic movement wa...
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Remaining Challenges for Humanistic Psychology
Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 2005Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:The Humanistic Psychology movement that began in the late 1950s and blossomed in the 1960s was a necessary corrective to the mainstream Psychology of that era. Primarily, the Humanistic movement was a significant factor in restoring the image of the human person that was greatly reduced by behaviorism and strict psychoanalysis. However, Humanistic Psychology did not totally free itself from the methods and strategies inherited from natural scientific Psychology. This article demonstrates the compatibility between Humanistic Psychology and a phenomenological approach and suggests that remaining challenges to Humanistic Psychology demand explicit acknowledgement of the need for the development of nonreductionistic human scientific methods for studying persons in psychological meaningful ways.
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Humanistic Psychology and the Humanism of Karl Jaspers
The Humanistic Psychologist, 1997Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:Abstract Humanistic Psychology has been accused of not being in harmony with philosophical humanism. However, a comparison of the philosophical humanism of Karl Jaspers with the themes promulgated by Humanistic Psychology shows a great deal of convergence, especially with respect to the key issues addressed by Jaspers: the meaning of being human, the conditions of humanism, and the type of humanism possible in the 20th century. Challenges for a Humanistic Psychology nevertheless remain, chief of which is better coverage of non‐objective dimensions of humans.
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Whither Humanistic Psychology
The Humanistic Psychologist, 1992Co-Authors: Amedeo GiorgiAbstract:Abstract While Humanistic Psychology has been successful in therapy and has had some impact on our culture, it has failed to generate a research tradition and conceptualization of science which is radically Humanistic. Some contemporary approaches to the question of essential qualities of human being are considered. The characteristic of transcendence, as elaborated by the modern philosophers Buber, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau‐Ponty, is used to qualitatively distinguish human beings from natural phenomena and thereby provide a foundation for the development of a science rigorously faithful to persons’ expressed meanings.
Musaddiq Jahan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Humanistic Psychology a Rise for Positive Psychology
Indian journal of positive psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Sabira Khan, Musaddiq JahanAbstract:The first phase of Humanistic Psychology, which covered the period between 1960 to 1980, was largely driven by Maslow's agenda for a positive Psychology. It articulated a view of the human being as irreducible to parts, needing connection, meaning, and creativity. As the intellectual core of the human potential movement, Humanistic Psychology had a broad impact both on the field of Psychology as well as the culture at large. This holistic perspective on psychological development and self-actualization laid the foundation for the professions of individual and family counseling (Satir, 1964) and organizational development consulting (Massarik, 1992). The study of peak experiences and self-actualization was popularized throughout the culture. Humanistic Psychology also affected the educational system with its views on self-esteem and self-help, offering tools forpersonal and spiritual transformation. For example, the state of California funded a study of self-esteem which was sponsored by John Vasconcellos, past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and at the time Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the California Assembly (Mecca, Smelser & Vasconcellos, 1989).The Humanistic Psychology Division (32) of the American Psychological Association was founded in September, 1971 in response to the call for theory construction, research, and clinical professional education in Humanistic Psychology. Humanistic Psychology has continued as an oiganized movement that focuses research and educational efforts on the study of human experience. Besides Division 32, the organizational structures that carry the movement forward include the Association for Humanistic Psychology, as well as the graduate programs of the members of the Consortium for Diversified Psychology Programs, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, Seattle University, Sonoma State University, State University of West Georgia, Union Institute, Universidad AutUnoma de la Laguna (Mexico), and Harmony Institute (Russia). It includes The Humanistic Psychologist and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology as well as the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.The first brochure of Division 32 stated in its mission statement: "Humanistic Psychology aims to be faithful to the full richness of human experience. Its foundations include philosophical humanism, existentialism, and phenomenology. Its approach to the science and profession of Psychology accepts the challenge to develop a systematic and rigorous understanding of human beings." Humanistic psychologists investigate not only suffering and trauma, but also growth and creativity, dreams, ethics and values (Frankl, 1959; James, 1961; Maslow, 1971; May, 1958). They want to know what works, and how to assess outcome in therapy (Bohart, 1997; Schneider, & Eagle, 1996-7).Historic look on positive PsychologyThe advent of positive Psychology as we know it today can be traced back to Martin E. P. Seligman's 1998 Presidential Address to the American Psychological Association (Seligman, 1999). Following a serendipitous holiday meeting between Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi in winter 1997 (Csikszentmihalyi, 2003), and an epiphanic moment when gardening with his daughter Nikki (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), Seligman realized that Psychology had largely neglected the latter two of its three pre-World War II missions: curing mental illness, helping all people to lead more productive and fulfilling lives, and identifying and nurturing high talent. The advent of the Veterans Administration (in 1946) and the National Institute of Mental Health (in 1947) had largely rendered Psychology a healing discipline based upon a disease model and illness ideology (see also, Maddux, 2002; Maddux, Snyder, & Lopez, 2004). With this realization, Seligman resolved to use his APA presidency to initiate a shift in Psychology's focus toward a more positive Psychology (Seligman, 1999). …
Sabira Khan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Humanistic Psychology a Rise for Positive Psychology
Indian journal of positive psychology, 2012Co-Authors: Sabira Khan, Musaddiq JahanAbstract:The first phase of Humanistic Psychology, which covered the period between 1960 to 1980, was largely driven by Maslow's agenda for a positive Psychology. It articulated a view of the human being as irreducible to parts, needing connection, meaning, and creativity. As the intellectual core of the human potential movement, Humanistic Psychology had a broad impact both on the field of Psychology as well as the culture at large. This holistic perspective on psychological development and self-actualization laid the foundation for the professions of individual and family counseling (Satir, 1964) and organizational development consulting (Massarik, 1992). The study of peak experiences and self-actualization was popularized throughout the culture. Humanistic Psychology also affected the educational system with its views on self-esteem and self-help, offering tools forpersonal and spiritual transformation. For example, the state of California funded a study of self-esteem which was sponsored by John Vasconcellos, past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology and at the time Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the California Assembly (Mecca, Smelser & Vasconcellos, 1989).The Humanistic Psychology Division (32) of the American Psychological Association was founded in September, 1971 in response to the call for theory construction, research, and clinical professional education in Humanistic Psychology. Humanistic Psychology has continued as an oiganized movement that focuses research and educational efforts on the study of human experience. Besides Division 32, the organizational structures that carry the movement forward include the Association for Humanistic Psychology, as well as the graduate programs of the members of the Consortium for Diversified Psychology Programs, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School, Seattle University, Sonoma State University, State University of West Georgia, Union Institute, Universidad AutUnoma de la Laguna (Mexico), and Harmony Institute (Russia). It includes The Humanistic Psychologist and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology as well as the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology.The first brochure of Division 32 stated in its mission statement: "Humanistic Psychology aims to be faithful to the full richness of human experience. Its foundations include philosophical humanism, existentialism, and phenomenology. Its approach to the science and profession of Psychology accepts the challenge to develop a systematic and rigorous understanding of human beings." Humanistic psychologists investigate not only suffering and trauma, but also growth and creativity, dreams, ethics and values (Frankl, 1959; James, 1961; Maslow, 1971; May, 1958). They want to know what works, and how to assess outcome in therapy (Bohart, 1997; Schneider, & Eagle, 1996-7).Historic look on positive PsychologyThe advent of positive Psychology as we know it today can be traced back to Martin E. P. Seligman's 1998 Presidential Address to the American Psychological Association (Seligman, 1999). Following a serendipitous holiday meeting between Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi in winter 1997 (Csikszentmihalyi, 2003), and an epiphanic moment when gardening with his daughter Nikki (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), Seligman realized that Psychology had largely neglected the latter two of its three pre-World War II missions: curing mental illness, helping all people to lead more productive and fulfilling lives, and identifying and nurturing high talent. The advent of the Veterans Administration (in 1946) and the National Institute of Mental Health (in 1947) had largely rendered Psychology a healing discipline based upon a disease model and illness ideology (see also, Maddux, 2002; Maddux, Snyder, & Lopez, 2004). With this realization, Seligman resolved to use his APA presidency to initiate a shift in Psychology's focus toward a more positive Psychology (Seligman, 1999). …
Fraser J Pierson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the handbook of Humanistic Psychology leading edges in theory research and practice
2001Co-Authors: Kirk J Schneider, James F T Bugental, Fraser J PiersonAbstract:The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research, and Practice · Kirk J. Schneider, James F. T. Bugental & J. Humanistic Psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to However, as with whole language theory, training practice were too The handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading edges in theory, research, and practice. London:. "The Roots and Genealogy of Humanistic Psychology." The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research, and Practice.