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Toward a Secular Humanistic Psychology

Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064.

Humanistic psychology may be mapped on two crossed dichotomies: practical versus theoretical, and religious-spiritual versus secular. The theoretical/secular quadrant with which I am identified has been underrepresented in the humanistic psychology movement, with various disadvantages including estrangement from the academic study of personality, now reviving. An integration of primatological-archaeological-historical scholarship is presented as a secular humanist "origin myth," warranting hope though not optimism in our present version of the human existential predicament, one that has no precedent. A presidential address to the APA Division of Humanistic Psychology.

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 26, No. 1, 7-26 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/0022167886261002


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