PSYC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abraham Maslow, Humanistic Psychology, Active Listening

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 106
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

In the 1960"s, some psychologists began to reject. The dysfunctional view of people in psychodynamic thought. Maslow and rogers sought to offer a third force in psychology: the. They studied healthy people rather than people with mental health problems. Humanism: focusing on the conditions that support healthy personal growth. Humanistic psychology (abraham maslow and carl rogers) emphasizes the human potential for growth, self-actualization, and personal fulfillment. Humanistic therapy attempts to support personal growth by helping people gain self-awareness and self-acceptance. Client-centered therapy is carl rogers"s name for his style of humanistic therapy. Person-centered (or client centered) therapy: assumes that all individuals have a tendency toward growth and this growth can be facilitated by acceptance and genuine reactions from the therapist. Style of client centered therapy: active listening, accepts what the client says without judging, shows trust that client can solve own problems (versus freudian approach). Client-centered therapists show that they are tuning in to clients" feelings and meanings: summarize, paraphrase.