ABSTRACT
Humanistic Psychology is a child of cultural turmoil. Movements for civil rights, women's rights, anti-war, student rebellions, psychedelic drugs, new music, radical politics, critical intellectual movements and transgressive arts were pervasive enough in the 1960s to be considered a counter-culture. In 1969 the American humanistic psychologist Carl Rogers gave a commencement address to Sonoma State University graduates in which he described his view of what he called 'Persons of Tomorrow for a World of Tomorrow'. Humanistic Psychology did not help itself, as its research agenda dwindled and emphasis on the eupsychian devolved into an inward-looking focus on self, demonization of academia, especially positivist science and an acritical acceptance of pseudoscience and New Age myths, however flimsy the evidence. Though psychotherapy remains an important tool in helping individuals deal with personal pain and the stresses of 'liquid modernity' it is not and should not be the whole story.
