Meridian University

Primary Concern:

• The person

Mode of Imagination:

• The Empathic Imagination

Theorists Associated with:

• Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, James Bugental, Rollo May

Key Concepts in Humanistic Psychology:

• Subjective meaning (a rejection of determinism, and a concern for positive growth rather than pathology)
• Self-actualization
• Being and Becoming
• Health and creativity

Approaches within Humanistic Psychology:

• Somatic Psychology
• Gestalt Psychology
• Existential Psychology and Phenomenological Psychology