Humanistic Approach To Psychodynamic Research

However, as the unofficial “humanistic” approach gained momentum in the field, it received a lot of warning and criticisms. For example, in the 1960’s when there was a great emphasis on peace and justice from the ending of recent wars, Carl Rogers warned that the approach would not become permanent if it was made into a protest movement. The humanistic approach needed to be taken seriously, and if psychologists treated it as a “fad”, then the community will treat it as such as well. In order for that to happen, there needed to be an appeal for innovative research on the topic (Giorgi, 1992). So, Maslow took initiative. At that point in time, he was being isolated from the psychological community as a result of straying from experimental and