PSYC 3140 Lecture 88: PSYC 3140 Lecture 88
9 May 2018
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Lecture 88
▪ According to Kelly, people with psychological problems have
lost their ability to make-believe, an ability that the therapist
must help the client regain.
▪ Kelly’s fixed-role therapy can be seen as an early version of
narrative therapy
▪ Kelly hoped that fixed-role therapy would help the client
discover other possible ways of viewing his or her life.
• Humanistic Psychology
o Modern humanistic psychology began as a protest movement
against behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
▪ Behaviorism saw too much similarity between humans and
other animals.
• Behaviorism concentrated on trivial types of behavior
and ignored or minimized the mental and emotional
processes that make humans unique.
▪ Psychoanalysis focused on abnormal individuals and
emphasized unconscious or sexual motivation while ignoring
healthy individuals whose primary motives included personal
growth and the improvement of society.
o The Basic Tenets of Humanistic Psychology.
o ***The humanistic psychologists believes:
