“…Maureen O’Hara’s vision of humanistic psychology promoting “narratives of hope and solidarity” can be an antidote to the “current narratives of despair, fear, and division” in a number of specific concrete ways, as described above. But I also think that in order to effectively accomplish this, there needs to be a merging of humanistic psychology with progressive politics (Benjamin, 2020a, 2020b; House et al, 2018; Proctor et al, 2006; Schmid, 2015). Progressive politics is intertwined with values inclusive of social reform, nonviolent dissent, freedom of speech, combating climate change, limiting the power of monopolistic corporations, environmental justice, economic and political equality, and improvement of the human condition (Greenberg & Levin, 2019; The Progressive Magazine, 2020; Sargent, 2018; Wikipedia, 2020).…”