ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book outlines how Humanistic Psychology might serve as a praxis such that a new consciousness might emerge, better adapted to the challenges of turbulent times. Post-positive science helped spawn a new view of personhood that has been core to Humanistic Psychology, and O'Hara highlights how Rogers carefully articulated the qualities of 'persons of tomorrow'. 'The development community and its activist psychology', Lois Holzman, presents a case study of a US-based development community practising a unique humanistic-critical synthesis known as 'The psychology of becoming/social therapeutics'. The book offers just a comparatively small selection from the vast cornucopia of possibilities that innovative humanistic thinking can bring to modern society, and its many vicissitudes and struggles. Humanistic Psychology at its best, along with its rich array of critical thinkers as represented here, offers precisely the kind of innovative, 'out-of-box' insight and indications for praxis.
