Resituating Humanistic Psychology: Finding Meaning in an Age of Medicalization, Digitization, and Identity Politics

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In Resituating Humanistic Psychology, Patrick Whitehead and Miles Groth urge psychologists to return to the aims and goals of psychology as it first emerged. Illustrating how the field has veered from its initial conception, Whitehead and Groth trace its growth from the late 1800s to the humanistic revolution of the 1960s to the current period of social unrest. Whitehead and Groth touch on Wilhelm Wundts and William Jamess vision for the field; the lasting changes made to clinical psychology, methods of investigation, and psychology of learning in the 1960s; and the effects of isolation, extreme connectivity, and social politics on psychology today. This book is recommended for scholars and students of psychology, history, and philosophy.

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Weaving rigorous critical examination with reflexivity and intimacy, Whitehead and Groth solidly demonstrate that, far from being a historical relic, humanistic approaches in psychology and psychotherapy are primed to tackle the polarizations that bitterly characterize the early 21st centurycorporate medicalization, scientism, and impersonal dissemination of facts in education on one hand; paternalism and identity politics on the other. -- Andrew Bland, Millersville University

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Patrick Whitehead is assistant professor of psychology at Albany State University. Miles Groth is professor of psychology at Wagner College.