PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Unconditional Positive Regard, Unconditional Love, Gestalt Psychology
19 Mar 2018
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Humanistic psychology (positive psychology) (cid:862)the third for(cid:272)e(cid:863) Force against behaviourism and psychoanalysis 3rd force of psychology. Focus on free will creative, power, spontaneous not deterministic. Want to study all factors relevant to human condition. Brentano: psychological processes > elements: influences humanistic psychology. Dissatisfaction against materialistic view of the world. Disputed that we function in predetermined fashion: did(cid:374)"t agree (cid:449)ith usi(cid:374)g a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als si(cid:374)(cid:272)e they are differe(cid:374)t, opposed freud, minimized role of consciousness. Abraham maslow (1908-1970) spiritual father of humanistic psychology. Understand greatest achievements people are capable of. Mother rejected him and was very superstitious, punished him a lot. Phd in 1934 from university of wisconsin. Started off as behaviourist but found it to be too narrow to be useful for everything. In contact with german psychologists adler, horney. Teaching job at brooklyn college, tried to humanize it: ostra(cid:272)ized (cid:271)y (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ity (cid:449)ho did(cid:374)"t agree (cid:449)ith his (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s. co(cid:374)sidered it unorthodox, struggled to get published. 1951-1969: developed, refined theories and wrote books.
