Resituating Humanistic Psychology

Finding Meaning in an Age of Medicalization, Digitization, and Identity Politics

Patrick M. Whitehead and Miles Groth

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 Wundt’s and William James’s 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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 234 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-9100-3 • Hardback • May 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-9101-0 • eBook • May 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Psychology / History

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 Wundt’s and William James’s 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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Lexington Books

Pages: 234 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9

978-1-4985-9100-3 • Hardback • May 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)

978-1-4985-9101-0 • eBook • May 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

Subjects: Psychology / History

Author

Patrick Whitehead is assistant professor of psychology at Albany State University.

Miles Groth is professor of psychology at Wagner College.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Psychology (and what it isn’t)

Chapter 2: The Early Promise of Psychology

Chapter 3: A Nation Ill-at-ease: The Precursors to 1960s Humanistic Revolution

Chapter 4: Insights for Research and Education from the Humanistic Movement in Psychology

Chapter 5: From Talking Cure to Psychotherapy: A History of the Helping Profession

Chapter 6: May the Force be With You: Humanistic Contributions to Psychotherapy

Chapter 7: Scientific Precursors to the Second Humanistic Revolution

Chapter 8: The Fundamentals of Existentialism

Chapter 9: Psychopathologization

Chapter 10: Identity Politics

Chapter 11: Resituating Psychology in the Humanities

Reviews

“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 century—corporate medicalization, scientism, and impersonal dissemination of facts in education on one hand; paternalism and identity politics on the other.”
— Andrew Bland, Millersville University