Humanist

Humanist Humanist Psychology The Humanistic approach is a fairly recent development in psychology; it emerged mainly in the US in the 1950’s. It grew from the need to apply a more favourable view of humans than had been expressed in the past. Abraham Maslow, in 1968 called the approach ‘the third force’, the other two forces being Behaviourism and Freudianism. He did not completely reject these approaches, but hoped to unify them, by integrating both the subjective and the objective, the public and the private aspects of the person, thus providing a complete and holistic psychology. Behaviourism and the psychoanalytical approaches are both determined, they believe that our behaviour is driven by forces beyond our control, forces from within (Freud), reinforcements from without (Skinner). Humanistic psychologists believe in free will, and a person’s ability to choose how they act. They believed that people where born with the desire to grow, create and to love, and had the power to direct their own lives. It’s the conditions of life that a person is living within, their environment, that can either hinder or help this natural destiny. Maslow provided the notion that humans inherit a psychological structure of needs, capacities and tendencies that are essentially needs, within, therapy, therapist, rogers, client, self, psychology, person, maslow, humanistic, forces, development, councillors, been, aspects, work, view, untestable, trained, towards, themselves, social, said, psychologists, psychological, provided, people, own, others, one, methods, mainly, lives, life