ABSTRACT

This book provides a thought-provoking examination of the present state and the future of Humanistic Psychology, showcasing a rich international contributor line-up.

The book addresses head-on the current state of a world in crisis, not only placing the current conjuncture within a wider evolutionary context, but also demonstrating the specifically humanistic-psychological values and practices that can help us to transform and transcend the world’s current challenges. Each chapter looks in depth at a variety of issues: counselling and psychotherapy, creativity and the humanities, post-traumatic stress, and socio-political movements and activism.

The book amply confirms that Humanistic Psychology is as alive, and as innovative and exciting, as it ever has been, and has tremendous relevance to the uncertainties that characterize the unprecedented individual and global challenges of the times. It celebrates the diverse and continuing significance of Humanistic Psychology by providing a robust and reliable roadmap for a new generation of counsellors and psychotherapists. In these richly diverse chapters will be found inspiration, pockets of resistance, mature critical reflexivity and much much more - a book accurately reflecting our present situation, and which is an invaluable addition to the psychology literature.

part II|59 pages

Socio-political-cultural perspectives

chapter 7|7 pages

The future of humanism

Cultivating the humanities impulse in mental health culture

chapter 8|10 pages

Climate dynamics

A study in psycho-social analysis

chapter 9|12 pages

Steps to a politics of heart

part III|70 pages

Current applications, tensions and possibilities

chapter 10|12 pages

Creating space

A way forward for Humanistic Psychology

chapter 11|11 pages

Carl Rogers

Absence and presence in the contemporary therapy landscape

chapter 12|7 pages

The future of Humanistic Psychology

Autonomy, relatedness and competence

chapter 13|7 pages

Reconciling Humanistic and Positive Psychology

Further bridging the cultural rift 1

chapter 16|6 pages

An accidental affiliation

part IV|93 pages

Future prospects – existential, transpersonal, postmodern

chapter 17|6 pages

Humanistic Psychology

How it was and how it may be

chapter 18|5 pages

Humanistic Psychology’s chief task

To reset psychology on its rightful existential-humanistic base 1

chapter 19|4 pages

Directions for Humanistic Psychology

chapter 21|2 pages

On the future of Humanistic Psychology

Possible avenues for exploration

chapter 22|6 pages

Humanistic Psychology

Possible ways forward

chapter 23|6 pages

Gestalt in a changing world

chapter 25|13 pages

Humanism

The fourth wave