ABSTRACT
Existential principles are fully embodied in most of the forms of humanistic psychotherapy, including person-centred, Gestalt, psychodrama, experiential therapies, Primal Integration, radical therapy, feminist therapy, several body therapies, dream work and so forth. For humanistic psychotherapy, authenticity is a direct experience of the real self. It is unmistakable, it is self-authenticating. It is a true experience of freedom, of liberation. To claim to be self-actualized seemed to be claiming to have reached the ultimate, and this seemed to be arrogant pride indeed. But what Wilber makes clear is that there are levels beyond self-actualization. This is not the place to go into them, because they are outside the range of humanistic psychology, but Wilber names them as the Psychic, the Subtle, the Causal and the Nondual. So the level of self-actualization is a relatively modest one, and to say that one is self-actualized is not such a great matter after all.
