Becoming Authentic: An
                    Existential-Humanistic Approach to Reading Literature

Greening, Thomas

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“…Knowledge of Freudian literary inquiry is also crucial as a comparative tool to the application of theories from humanistic psychology. Greening (2001) highlighted that Freud viewed the artist in pathological terms as someone who turned away from reality while the humanistic-existential approach to understanding the artist and literary works might offer a sharp contrast. We believe that a combination of Freudian and Rogerian ideas offers new vitality to literary interpretation.…”

Section: Humanistic and Psychological Sf Connections And Beyondmentioning

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Humanistic Themes in Science Fiction: An Interview With David A. Kyle.

Herman¹,

Herman²

2006

The Humanistic Psychologist

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This article reviews how science fiction writers have employed a popular and specialized literary medium in order to offer creative insights into human behavior and social structures. David A. Kyle is introduced to readers as a science fiction writer, publisher, cofounder of Gnome Press, historian of the science fiction field, and an avid promoter of science fiction. Kyle offers candid insights related to how science fiction has encouraged a serious exploration of psychological, philosophical, educational, and sociological questions. His fundamental premise is that science fiction allows us to explore what it means to be human in a technological and scientifically oriented society. The article concludes with a summary of how literary figures, social scientists (psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, etc.), and teachers have also successfully used works of science fiction and literary criticism for various purposes.We wish to take you on a science fiction adventure. First, we will introduce David A. Kyle and allow him in his owns words to share how he envisions the field of science fiction and how psychologists and other scientists can make significant contributions to the field of science fiction. Next, we will attempt to build the case for why psychologists (particularly humanistic-oriented psychologists) and other social scientists have been attracted to the field of science fiction. We invite the reader to watch for themes related to humanistic psychology in David Kyle's background and comments in the next section that will be discussed in the conclusion.

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Section: Humanistic and Psychological Sf Connections And Beyondmentioning

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Humanistic Themes in Science Fiction: An Interview With David A. Kyle.

Herman¹,

Herman²

2006

The Humanistic Psychologist

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“…The Association for Humanistic Psychology and Division 32 of the American Psychological Association could do more along these lines. More could also be done to establish the kind of dialogical relationships that Friedman (2001) and Greening (2001) called for between and among humanistic theorists and researchers and persons in the world at large. Collaborative and creative efforts such as those represented in volume 41(1) of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology or in Lyons's (1996) special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist also move in the direction of building bridges and not walls between humanistic psychology's agenda and the aims and purposes of others (e.g., those promoting "positive psychology" or general human welfare) both within and without our field.…”

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Building Bridges, Not Walls

Richards

2003

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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During the Old Saybrook 2 Conference, held May 11-14, 2000, on the campus of the State University of West Georgia, the author participated in a dialogue session about the challenges facing humanistic psychology and the opportunities that exist to more effectively sustain continued contributions to this movement.1 Extending this discussion here, disparate developments are highlighted that suggest the humanistic psychology movement is alive and well, even where it is not specifically referenced. The existence of numerous allies or kindred spirits, it is argued, constitute an extended but often unrecognized community of support for humanistic psychology's ideals, aims, and purposes. Yet more could be done by those committed to this movement to acknowledge, express appreciation for, and build productive bridges to the contributions of these individuals and groups.

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“…Many humanistic psychologists do not relieve people of the responsibility of creating their own lives within what may be an unhealthful context-or, indeed, for changing the context. &dquo;Responsibility&dquo; is a key word in gestalt therapy (Polster and Polster, 1973), and the theme of responsible choice is also at the heart of transactional analysis (Berne, 1972) and existential thinking (Greening, 1971).…”

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“…Indeed, much effort has been expended to evolve therapeutic tools, from the existential (Bugental, 1978;Greening, 1971) to the phenomenological (Keen, 1976), to the wide array of popular therapies. Humanistic psychologists can lay claim to a good deal of the credit for helping to create the varieties of techniques and services now available to the person seeking help, and to the growing awareness that a balance of factors is necessary in finding the treatment and the therapist appropriate to each person (see Lazarus, 1971).…”

Section: Humanistic Psychology and The Less Healthy Personmentioning

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Humanistic Psychology

Riebel

1982

Small Group Behavior

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Values is the core of social cultural system; it is the important component of individual outlook and philosophy. Its essence is the value standpoint, attitude and basic idea of the subject. Defoe's values were the important components in the meaning of innovation on English Realistic literature in the 18th century. The value system had come into being and developed gradually from the 18th century in order to meet the needs of developing trend in the soil of western culture. It had inherited and developed the literary tradition in the form, which reflected the positive life attitude and man's wisdom and productive power with some new ideas on labor creating different values.

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Becoming Authentic: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Reading Literature

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