Humanistic psychologies seek to uphold values and resist demoralization in beings and behaviors pertaining to a human conscience that is guided by individual standards and not by fear of external authority. Humanistic psychology also uses an internal emphasis in determining behavior and relies on the free will of a human being because it implies they have a choice with morals to guide them to making the right one. Free will, in the APA Dictionary of Psychology, “is the power of capacity of a human being for self-direction. The function of the will is to be inclined or disposed toward an idea or action. The concept of free will thus suggests that inclinations, dispositions, thoughts, and actions are not determined entirely by forces over which people have no independent directing influence. Free will is generally seen as necessary for moral action and responsibility and is implied by much of our everyday experience, in which we are conscious of having the power to forbear (see paradox freedom). However, it has often been dismissed as illusory by advocates of determinism, who hold that all occurrences, including human actions, are predetermined.” Humanistic therapy is a subfield of humanistic psychology and defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology is “any variety of psychotherapeutic approaches that reject psychoanalytic behavioral approaches; seek to foster personal growth through direct experience and focus on development of human potential, the here and now, concrete personality change, and the responsibility for oneself, and trust in natural process and spontaneous feeling. Examples of are client centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, essential psychotherapy, and experiential
Humanistic psychologies seek to uphold values and resist demoralization in beings and behaviors pertaining to a human conscience that is guided by individual standards and not by fear of external authority. Humanistic psychology also uses an internal emphasis in determining behavior and relies on the free will of a human being because it implies they have a choice with morals to guide them to making the right one. Free will, in the APA Dictionary of Psychology, “is the power of capacity of a human being for self-direction. The function of the will is to be inclined or disposed toward an idea or action. The concept of free will thus suggests that inclinations, dispositions, thoughts, and actions are not determined entirely by forces over which people have no independent directing influence. Free will is generally seen as necessary for moral action and responsibility and is implied by much of our everyday experience, in which we are conscious of having the power to forbear (see paradox freedom). However, it has often been dismissed as illusory by advocates of determinism, who hold that all occurrences, including human actions, are predetermined.” Humanistic therapy is a subfield of humanistic psychology and defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology is “any variety of psychotherapeutic approaches that reject psychoanalytic behavioral approaches; seek to foster personal growth through direct experience and focus on development of human potential, the here and now, concrete personality change, and the responsibility for oneself, and trust in natural process and spontaneous feeling. Examples of are client centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, essential psychotherapy, and experiential