On framing the future of humanistic psychology.

DeRobertis, Eugene M.

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“…This paper describes six research principles for revitalizing humanistic psychology and impacting mainstream psychology based on Gergen (2016) and DeRobertis (2016). It demonstrates how Wong’s meaning-centered research and therapy is an extension of humanistic-existential psychology and has impacted mainstream psychology indirectly by following six principles.…”

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Meaning-centered approach to research and therapy, second wave positive psychology, and the future of humanistic psychology.

Wong¹

2017

The Humanistic Psychologist

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This paper describes six research principles for revitalizing humanistic psychology and impacting mainstream psychology based on Gergen (2016) and DeRobertis (2016). It demonstrates how Wong's meaning-centered research and therapy is an extension of humanistic-existential psychology and has impacted mainstream psychology indirectly by following six principles. Furthermore, it also shows how Wong's (2011) second wave positive psychology is able to provide a new humanistic vision to impact mainstream psychology directly. Finally, it argues that humanistic psychology needs to take these six principles seriously by going beyond phenomenological research and replacing a "tribal" mentality with a pluralistic big-tent perspective since humanistic-existential themes permeate every aspect of psychology.

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Meaning-centered approach to research and therapy, second wave positive psychology, and the future of humanistic psychology.

Wong¹

2017

The Humanistic Psychologist

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“…Scientific discourse involves the objective study of phenomena (DeRobertis, 2016). This is a natural extension of logical positivism, rooted in the idea that the complexities of the world can be made more orderly and understandable by developing increasingly abstract constructs and models to better illuminate overarching principles, theories, and laws that govern observations.…”

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Holistic irreducibility: Humanistic practice as the gateway to phenomenal mind

Wilkinson

2021

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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While scholarly references to "holism" are abundant in the literature, the term is often applied as a synonym for multidimensionality. Humanistic counseling is committed to genuinely holistic practices guided by the principle of irreducibility. From a phenomenological stance, what makes humanistic counseling unique is the guiding assumption that pre-reflective subjectivity is not only real rather than epiphenomenal, but the basic source of therapeutic change. By examining philosophical distinctions between psychological mind and phenomenal mind, it becomes clear that humanistic therapies facilitate intrapsychic contact with pre-reflective experience under the presumption that such experiential self-contact is a precondition for post hoc psychological interpretations of experience. Although humanistic strategies can be applied in non-humanistic practice, its guiding philosophical position and purposefulness in practice makes it otherwise ungeneralizable. The concept of holistic irreducibility is defined at two conceptual levels and differences between psychological and phenomenal mind are explored through person-centered and existential therapies. K E Y W O R D S change, holism, humanism, phenomenology, subjectivityThe study of the whole person in humanistic counseling is often discussed with reference to the concepts of holism and irreducibility (Hansen et al., 2014;Schneider et al., 2014). These terms are closely related as both suggest essential features of the human experience are lost when complex systems are examined only in terms of constituent parts or processes rather than in totality. In this respect, holism and irreducibility are virtually synonymous in therapy-related discourse. Subtler philosophical distinctions between these terms will be eschewed herein, with the phrase holistic irreducibility used to signify their commonality.The premise of this article is that holistic irreducibility is a distinctly humanistic concept that cannot be appreciated in isolation from phenomenological presuppositions. Framed accordingly, both holism and irreducibility point to personhood as a lived subjective experience that includes both pre-reflective and reflective states. Yet this particular notion of holistic irreducibility is not shared when

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“…During the new millennium, existential-humanistic psychologists have made calls for more research (beyond philosophical argument alone) to support existential-humanistic theorizing and therapeutic techniques (Criswell, 2003; DeRobertis, 2016; Fischer, 2003; Wong, 2017b) in the interest of keeping the existential-humanistic movement alive and relevant for new generations and not becoming relegated to the status of a historical relic (DeRobertis, 2013). Despite therapists’ use of the obituary writing technique for several decades and its occasional inclusion in workbooks and websites offering therapeutic and self-development activities (Stanford Graduate School of Business, n.d.; Valentine, 2017), research on the technique remains wanting beyond the pair of case studies summarized above.…”

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The existential obituary writing technique for emerging adults: Thematic and content analyses.

Bland¹

2021

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Writing one's own obituary is a technique rooted in the theoretical/philosophical principles of existential-humanistic psychology that has long been endorsed by existential-humanistic psychologists for its value in promoting second-order change (existential liberation) and self-cultivation. These processes are pertinent for emerging adults, for whom a principal developmental task is self-authorship (transitioning out of uncritically following external formulas learned in childhood and toward making internally based decisions to meet the demands of complex work roles and interpersonal intimacy as adults). To date, literature on obituary writing has been limited to a half-dozen sources, none of which offer formal investigations of its process mechanisms/dynamics. This study provides research support for the technique's theoretical underpinnings and contextualizes its effectiveness as demonstrated in extant case studies in order to preserve its integrity in the current evidence-based practice zeitgeist. In this study, 22 emerging adults in a college course completed obituaries and reflections on the lived experience thereof. Thematic and summative content analyses were used to assess the thematic content included in the obituaries and the process by which the participants made sense of the act of writing them. Findings suggest that, in this sample, consistent with extant theorizing and informal observations, the experience of completing one's own obituary begins with emotional discomfort followed by a transformative shift in the direction of a greater sense of acceptance, appreciation, and awe toward the possibilities of living the life one envisions. Finally, connections with and contributions to the emerging adulthood literature and suggestions for further inquiry are discussed.

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On framing the future of humanistic psychology.

Cited by 10 publications

References 73 publications

Meaning-centered approach to research and therapy, second wave positive psychology, and the future of humanistic psychology.

Meaning-centered approach to research and therapy, second wave positive psychology, and the future of humanistic psychology.

Holistic irreducibility: Humanistic practice as the gateway to phenomenal mind

The existential obituary writing technique for emerging adults: Thematic and content analyses.

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