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12 de nov. de 2021 · American politics and humanistic psychology by May, Rollo. Publication date 1984 Topics Political psychology, Political ethics, Humanistic psychology Publisher San Francisco : Saybrook Pub. Co. Collection printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary Contributor Internet Archive Language English.
In this article, the author discusses the relationship of progressive politics to humanistic psychology in the Trump/Coronavirus era. The harsh realities of personal fears and severe challenges to our mental health evoked by both the United States presidency of Donald Trump and the coronavirus pandemic are described initially.
Greening has grouped them into four cogent themes: the implications of the daimonic aspects of human nature, the relation between personal and political transformation, the problematic of a political elite, and the relevance of humanistic psychology to responsible social action.
The Merging of Humanistic Psychology With Progressive Politics. 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.
American Politics and Humanistic Psychology Rollo May, Carl Ransom Rogers, Abraham Harold Maslow Snippet view - 1984
May was influenced by American humanism, and interested in reconciling existential psychology with other philosophies, especially Freud's. May considered Otto Rank (1884-1939) to be the most important precursor of existential therapy.
The article concludes that humanistic psychology lost its power and influence, in large measure, because it is inherently incompatible with the basic assumptions and values of contemporary mainstream psychology and with the conservative ideologies that have increasingly gained power in American culture since the 1960s.
