Humanistic Psychology

Humanistic psychology understood itself as a third force: not psychoanalysis, which thinks from conflict, and not behaviourism, which thinks from the reflex. Its objection was that both had drawn their picture of the human being from the ill and from rats, and so came out systematically too narrow.

What it put at the centre instead — growth, meaning, the capacity for one’s own development — was harder to measure than salivation. That is exactly why this folder collects such different replication records: where these approaches made testable claims, they were tested, and the results come out divided.

Worth noting is who submitted to testing. Carl Rogers, whom reception turned into the opponent of a measuring psychology, was among the first to record therapy sessions in order to make them checkable.