Meaning-Centered Approach to Research and Therapy, Second Wave Positive Psychology, and the Future of Humanistic Psychology

This paper describes six research principles for revitalizing humanistic psychology and impacting mainstream psychology based on Gergen (2016) and DeRobertis (2016). It demonstrates how Wong's meaning-centered research and therapy is an extension of humanistic-existential psychology and has imp...

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Published in:The Humanistic psychologist 2017-09, Vol.45 (3), p.207-216
Main Author: Wong, Paul T. P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Existential Therapy
Experimentation
Human
Humanism
Humanistic Psychology
Meaning
Phenomenology
Positive Psychology
Psychology
Therapy
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Summary:This paper describes six research principles for revitalizing humanistic psychology and impacting mainstream psychology based on Gergen (2016) and DeRobertis (2016). It demonstrates how Wong's meaning-centered research and therapy is an extension of humanistic-existential psychology and has impacted mainstream psychology indirectly by following six principles. Furthermore, it also shows how Wong's (2011) second wave positive psychology is able to provide a new humanistic vision to impact mainstream psychology directly. Finally, it argues that humanistic psychology needs to take these six principles seriously by going beyond phenomenological research and replacing a "tribal" mentality with a pluralistic big-tent perspective since humanistic-existential themes permeate every aspect of psychology.
ISSN:0887-3267
1547-3333
DOI:10.1037/hum0000062