Humanistic psychology was one of the first forays into a holistic approach toward the practice and research in psychology. It approached the subject matter less cautiously than the psychoanalysts of the time and was much more involved with the concept of what the “self” of a person really is. It deviated from the psychoanalytic and behavioristic approaches by encouraging the individual to self-actualize rather than study their observable behaviors or to read into their psychological transgressions. Among the research done in this field, two main psychologists stood out. Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers both contributed heavily to this sub discipline of psychological study.
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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers unsurprisingly contributed together to this new approach to psychology. They worked together in the United States, doing research that formed the main basis of the ideas that humanistic psychology has studied over the past decades.
Abraham Maslow was originally taught in the school of behavioral psychology focusing on the observable rather than the unobservable. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and later Columbia University. While at Columbia University he and an anthropologist known as Ruth Benedict who urged him to go do fieldwork interacting with the “Blackfoot Indian Tribe.” This changed his ideas of what psychology could and should do. He began to abandon his ideas of the behavioristic approach and instead focused on how psychology could improve and even fix social and personal issues.
Carl Rogers, like his colleague Maslow, also studied at the University of Wisconsin but also studied at the Union Theological Seminary, and also like Maslow later studied at Columbia University. He approached the idea of counselling with an empathetic view. He wanted to let the person help themselves. He developed ways to approach a patient with “non-directive” ways, so that the patient could make the realizations of themselves …show more content…
One of the main criticisms against humanistic psychology is that it is an un-scientific approach toward psychology. It is not any research that can be quite generalized for other people. Each individual approach is unique thus resulting in an approach that cannot be easily applied to others. Although this is good for counselling and therapy on an individual level, it leaves a lot to interpretation for the therapist to use for each client. This also leaves the data and operationalization of each term between case studies difficult to interpret and analyze; leaving it limited in its applications outside of specific cases of
The basic idea of humanistic psychology falls within the therapist trying …show more content…
Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers unsurprisingly contributed together to this new approach to psychology. They worked together in the United States, doing research that formed the main basis of the ideas that humanistic psychology has studied over the past decades.
Abraham Maslow was originally taught in the school of behavioral psychology focusing on the observable rather than the unobservable. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and later Columbia University. While at Columbia University he and an anthropologist known as Ruth Benedict who urged him to go do fieldwork interacting with the “Blackfoot Indian Tribe.” This changed his ideas of what psychology could and should do. He began to abandon his ideas of the behavioristic approach and instead focused on how psychology could improve and even fix social and personal issues.
Carl Rogers, like his colleague Maslow, also studied at the University of Wisconsin but also studied at the Union Theological Seminary, and also like Maslow later studied at Columbia University. He approached the idea of counselling with an empathetic view. He wanted to let the person help themselves. He developed ways to approach a patient with “non-directive” ways, so that the patient could make the realizations of themselves …show more content…
One of the main criticisms against humanistic psychology is that it is an un-scientific approach toward psychology. It is not any research that can be quite generalized for other people. Each individual approach is unique thus resulting in an approach that cannot be easily applied to others. Although this is good for counselling and therapy on an individual level, it leaves a lot to interpretation for the therapist to use for each client. This also leaves the data and operationalization of each term between case studies difficult to interpret and analyze; leaving it limited in its applications outside of specific cases of