Resituating Humanistic Psychology

Patrick Whitehead is assistant professor of psychology at Albany State University.Miles Groth is professor of psychology at Wagner College.

• Chapter 1: Psychology (and what it isn’t) Chapter 2: The Early Promise of Psychology Chapter 3: A Nation Ill-at-ease: The Precursors to 1960s Humanistic RevolutionChapter 4: Insights for Research and Education from the Humanistic Movement in Psychology Chapter 5: From Talking Cure to Psychotherapy: A History of the Helping ProfessionChapter 6: May the Force be With You: Humanistic Contributions to Psychotherapy Chapter 7: Scientific Precursors to the Second Humanistic Revolution Chapter 8: The Fundamentals of Existentialism Chapter 9: Psychopathologization Chapter 10: Identity PoliticsChapter 11: Resituating Psychology in the Humanities

“Weaving rigorous critical examination with reflexivity and intimacy, Whitehead and Groth solidly demonstrate that, far from being a historical relic, humanistic approaches in psychology and psychotherapy are primed to tackle the polarizations that bitterly characterize the early 21st century—corporate medicalization, scientism, and impersonal dissemination of facts in education on one hand; paternalism and identity politics on the other.”