The famous American social psychologist, the pioneer of the third generation psychology, put forward the humanistic psychology which integrates psychoanalytic psychology and behavioral psychology, and incorporated his aesthetic thought. His main achievements include putting forward humanistic psychology and Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory. His representative works include Motivation and Personality, Exploration of Existentialism Psychology, and the Field of Human Performance.
2. carl rogers
American psychologist, one of the main representatives of humanistic psychology. He is engaged in the practice and research of psychological counseling and therapy, advocates the "client-centered" psychotherapy method, advocates unguided therapy (case-centered therapy), and emphasizes that people have the ability to self-adjust and restore mental health.
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Humanism rose in the United States in 1950s and 1960s, and developed rapidly in 1970s and 1980s. We not only oppose behaviorism to equate people with animals, but also study people's behavior and don't understand the inner nature of people. He also criticized Freud for only studying neurosis and mental patients, but not the psychology of normal people, so he was called the third movement of psychology.
Humanistic psychology is the third force in the field of psychology in recent 30 years. It has a holistic trend of the times, and it is a new milestone for human beings to understand the psychoanalysis school of self-confrontation with the first force and the behavioral psychology of the second force.
Humanism emphasizes human dignity, value, creativity and self-realization, and it is an instinctive nature to attribute the self-realization of human nature to the exertion of potential. The greatest contribution of humanism is to see the consistency between human psychology and human nature, and advocates that psychology must study human psychology from human nature.