This chapter discusses the critique the fundamental problems related to positive
psychologys (PP) strategy before turning to the conceptual and methodological problems in …

This ground-breaking and innovative textbook offers a uniquely global approach to the study
of social psychology. Inclusive and outward-looking, the authors consciously re-orientate the …

This paper describes six research principles for revitalizing humanistic psychology and
impacting mainstream psychology based on Gergen (2016) and DeRobertis (2016). It …

A quantitatively oriented, research methodologist/philosopher of social sciences examines
the history of methodology in psychology, and offers several likely methodological and …

Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi launched the “positive” psychology movement with a
conspicuously negative strategy: the seemingly deliberate character assassination of …

Les psychothérapies humanistes centrent leur attention sur les valeurs, la liberté, la
responsabilité de la personne humaine, la quête de sens, l'expérience de la singularité, la …

William James made many references to pluralism throughout his career. Interestingly, many
contemporary psychologists also discuss pluralism and indeed call for pluralism as a …

Fifteen years ago, Pfaffenberger (2006) applied five implicit paradigmatic assumptions
identified by Slife of the dominant positivistic medical model paradigm—hedonism …

Twenty-one current introductory psychology textbooks were analyzed to assess the quantity
and quality of their presentations of humanistic psychology and related concepts and …

While scholarly references to “holism” are abundant in the literature, the term is often applied
as a synonym for multidimensionality. Humanistic counseling is committed to genuinely …