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humanistic psychology

3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

Thinker

Carl R. Rogers

American psychologist and founder of person-centered therapy, who argued that unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence are the necessary and sufficient conditions for therapeutic change.

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Institution

Esalen Institute

The Big Sur residential center founded by Michael Murphy and Dick Price in 1962 — the institutional home of the Human Potential Movement and a crucible for the encounter between Western psychology, Eastern spirituality, and consciousness research.

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Thinker

Joseph F. Rychlak

American psychologist and personality theorist who argued for a rigorous humanistic science of psychology that retained the teleological agency of human behavior against behaviorist reductionism.

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