Chapter 10
Humanistic emerged in the 50s as a reaction to the analysis of ideas just behavior, defended by behaviorism and focus on the unconscious and its determinism advocated by psychoanalysis.
The wide divergence with behaviorism is that humanism does not accept the idea of man as machine or animal, subject to conditioning processes. In relation to psychoanalysis, the reaction was the emphasis on the unconscious, biological issues and past events, the neuroses, psychoses and the division of their human magazines.
Strong existential and phenomenological influence, Humanistic Psychology seeks to understand the human being, trying to humanize her psychic apparatus, contradicting thus the view of man as a being conditioned by the outside world. Existentialism, human beings are seen as the starting point of the reflection process and phenomenology, the human being is aware of the world around him, the phenomena and its conscious experience. …show more content…
The reality, for Humanistic Psychology, must be exposed to temporality, it should be fluid and not static, allowing the individual the prospect of a whole, demystifying the idea of a pure reality, confronting it with other realities. The integration between the individual and the world, allows him to feel this reality, freeing up the demands of the past and the future.
One of the main theorists of Humanistic Psychology was Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), American, considered the spiritual father of the humanist movement, believed in individual tendency of people to become self-fulfilling, which is the highest level of human existence. Maslow created a range of needs to be met, and every conquest, new need arose. This would cause the individual was seeking self-realization, by successive needs
Humanistic emerged in the 50s as a reaction to the analysis of ideas just behavior, defended by behaviorism and focus on the unconscious and its determinism advocated by psychoanalysis.
The wide divergence with behaviorism is that humanism does not accept the idea of man as machine or animal, subject to conditioning processes. In relation to psychoanalysis, the reaction was the emphasis on the unconscious, biological issues and past events, the neuroses, psychoses and the division of their human magazines.
Strong existential and phenomenological influence, Humanistic Psychology seeks to understand the human being, trying to humanize her psychic apparatus, contradicting thus the view of man as a being conditioned by the outside world. Existentialism, human beings are seen as the starting point of the reflection process and phenomenology, the human being is aware of the world around him, the phenomena and its conscious experience. …show more content…
The reality, for Humanistic Psychology, must be exposed to temporality, it should be fluid and not static, allowing the individual the prospect of a whole, demystifying the idea of a pure reality, confronting it with other realities. The integration between the individual and the world, allows him to feel this reality, freeing up the demands of the past and the future.
One of the main theorists of Humanistic Psychology was Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), American, considered the spiritual father of the humanist movement, believed in individual tendency of people to become self-fulfilling, which is the highest level of human existence. Maslow created a range of needs to be met, and every conquest, new need arose. This would cause the individual was seeking self-realization, by successive needs