ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book defines humanistic values and practices. There is also a great deal of diversity, debate and even disagreement. It is certainly difficult to dispute the contention that Humanistic Psychology has already had a very significant impact on modern Western culture. Keith Tudor, for example, has highlighted just some of the ways in which Humanistic Psychology has been a big success story. One key question that arises from this is that of how important it is that Humanistic Psychology should work harder to provide a clear and unambiguous definition of its subject-matter, values and practices. A tension within Humanistic Psychology is that between modernity and postmodernity, that is, whether or not to embrace, or at least forge some kind of relationship with, the postmodern, post-structuralist and social constructionist thinking represented by theorists such as Nietzsche, Derrida, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, and others.
