Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00221678221149617
C. D. Henry
Maslow’s usage of “good specimens” rhetoric and methods is examined as a vertical perspective emphasizing hierarchical differences between individuals at different levels of psychological development. Despite its strengths, a number of potentially problematic implications of this perspective are discussed. Maslow’s supplemental usage of horizontal perspectives emphasizing the commonalities of the growth process as they occur in all individuals is also highlighted and suggested as an alternative humanistic approach for the exploration of biological wisdom.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00221678221147957
B. Robbins
Maslow suggests that a study of “superior” human specimen might have the potential to identify biological traits that distinguish flourishing individuals from those who are languishing. Maslow’s recommendation is open to criticisms. First, his method is circular. Second, the thrust of Maslow’s project has a eugenic ring to it. However, while Maslow’s eugenic vision should be sidelined, his call for an understanding of normativity and the need to overcome the fact-value dichotomy in psychology and neuroscience are well-considered recommendations. A phenomenological approach to normativity presents a more authentically humanistic approach to consideration of normativity. Husserl’s concept of optimal givenness and Merleau-Ponty’s notion of maximum grip illustrate that normativity is a quality that can be identified at a pre-predicative, implicit level of operative intentionality. Based on an examination of the notions of optimal givenness and maximum grip, the article further suggests that, within the context of interpersonal relations, agapic love can be understood to operate as a normative and regulative idea for ethical relations. Since this form of intentionality instantiates itself into perceptual and motor habits, normative ethical relations may be subject to investigation within neuroscience, to the extent that it maintains an ongoing dialogue with phenomenology.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00221678221145758
Jared W. Boot-Haury
This article describes Maslow’s vision of a Good Society and how engrained a humanistically oriented psychological science aimed at creating a Good Society has become in the contemporary practice of humanistic psychologists and psychologists more broadly. Although Maslow’s vision of a humanistically influenced psychology aimed at creating a Good Society has led to progress, it is not without fault. One major limitation of Maslow’s argument for a humanistically oriented psychological science aimed at creating a Good Society is Maslow’s pathologizing views regarding sexually diverse individuals and his contention that their sexual orientation or behaviors make those individuals unhealthy. This limitation is discussed, and current humanistic psychologists are encouraged to draw from Maslow’s vision for a Good Society to make further progress in the field of psychology while recognizing that, as humanistic psychologists, we must neither exclude any group of individuals from a part of a Good Society nor deem those individuals unfit for self-actualization.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00221678231162462
Edward Hoffman
This reaction paper traces Maslow’s discovery of Daoism, which became a key element in his psychological system of creativity, growth, and interpersonal relations.
这篇论文追溯了马斯洛对道教的发现，这成为他的创造、成长和人际关系心理系统的关键因素。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00221678231177561
Yuning Sun, E. Igou, E. Kinsella
Heroism is an expression of self-actualization and a pinnacle social state that is of fundamental interest to humanistic psychology. Heroes help individuals understand the values and norms within society and prompt individuals to do what they can for those who need help. We examine the relationship between the motivation to act heroically and civic engagement and explore how self-construals offer insights into this relationship. In two studies, we found that heroism motivation was a significant and consistent predictor of civic engagement. Furthermore, we found that the association between heroism motivation and civic engagement was explained by self-construals. More specifically, we found that heroism motivation was indirectly related to civic engagement when people adopted an interdependent self-construal (but not an independent self-construal). The findings from the present research contribute to our understanding of how the motivation to behave heroically affects civic engagement and demonstrate the importance of self-construals for the link between these types of motivation and behavior.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00221678231173164
Egle Meistaite, R. Pauli, M. Cooper
The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Responses to Personal Mortality Measure (RPMM), a new self-report tool to assess existential skills in relating to personal mortality. Items reflecting responses to personal mortality were generated and then selected through a rating process. They were further refined using Three-Step Test Interviews (TSTI). The psychometric properties of 91 items were explored with an online sample of 869 respondents, randomly divided into an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) subsamples. Through EFA, six factors were obtained: Emotional Response, Self-Oriented Acceptance, Transcendental Acceptance, Relational Acceptance, Relief Acceptance, and Avoidance. Internal consistency coefficients ranged between .90 and .97 ( M = .94). The six-factor model showed good fit statistics in traditional and bifactor CFAs. The construct and incremental validity were supported by relationships with the Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWB-42); the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ); the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21); the Existential Death Anxiety Scale (EDAS); and the Existential Anxiety Questionnaire (EAQ). The RPMM is a self-report tool of responses to personal mortality that can be used to evaluate the relationship between existential skills and psychological wellbeing. Further research is needed to examine the psychometric properties of the RPMM in a clinical sample.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-06DOI: 10.1177/00221678231172361
Ilene A. Serlin
Reading Maslow is alive, like experiencing a dialogue with a text. This article explores this writer’s response to Maslow’s narrative style, as well as to his powerful content. Using a personal narrative style that situates the reader in a Jewish context during the most powerful time of the year, the writer responds to Maslow as a Jewish prophet who prophecizes some of the dead-ends of the mechanistic science that he critiques in “Toward a Humanistic Biology.” His prophecies are startlingly lucid and applicable for what we are seeing in the world today.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1177/00221678231172530
Fabian Chmielewski, Ronja Regener, J. Margraf, Stephanie Schulz, T. Teismann, G. Hirschfeld, Ruth von Brachel
Perceiving one’s own life as meaningful is associated with mental health and well-being. Yet, psychotherapeutic interventions to enhance the experience of meaning have not been sufficiently evaluated in the context of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The aim of this study was to pilot a group therapy to increase meaning and to evaluate its feasibility and effectiveness. A small ( N = 8) study was conducted with patients after or near the end of their CBT treatment. The intervention was evaluated with a mixed-methods design that utilized qualitative interviews as well as quantitative questionnaires (Satisfaction with Life Scale, Well-being Scale) at pre- and post-treatment as well as after 8-week follow-up. Additional measures (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale, Positive Mental Health Scale, and the existential subscale of the McGill Quality of Life Scale) were administered after each session. Findings indicate that the group therapy was feasible and effective. Participants benefited from the therapy to a moderate to high extent, both in terms of symptom reduction and in terms of an improvement in general psychological well-being. Participants reported positive emotional and behavioral changes. Based on our findings, we conclude that existential interventions are meaningful extensions to CBT.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/00221678231168667
Sasha D. Strong
Psychosocial treatments for bipolar disorder (BD) enhance outcomes. However, more than half of those who receive psychosocial treatment experience residual depression. Mindfulness practice demonstrates benefits for numerous psychological problems, but little research has examined mindfulness-based interventions developed specifically for BD. A qualitative study was conducted to inform a new mindfulness-based treatment approach for BD and report the effects of mindfulness practice. In 2018 and 2019, nine adults were interviewed about their experiences recovering from BD. All respondents used Buddhist-informed mindfulness practice in their recoveries. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis, and four top-level themes emerged: building the capacity for health, emotional regulation, shifts in experiential perspective, and adverse experiences. There were also several sub-themes, including cultivating resilience, emotional self-awareness, emotional freedom and reduced reactivity, and cognitive clarity. These findings suggest that mindfulness practice may have unique contributions to make in recovery in BD. Mindfulness and Buddhist frameworks appeared to help participants make new, more helpful meanings about BD. These findings align with humanistic and transpersonal values. A future approach informed by these results could address whole-person concerns in recovery. Such an approach could promote recovery and help individuals work with the experience of BD.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1177/00221678231167612
Arnoldo Cantú
Psychiatric diagnoses found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM) and International Classification of Diseases ( ICD) are pervasive in the field of mental health to help individuals access services such as psychotherapy. In the United States, they are used for insurance reimbursement purposes and by providers in client–clinician encounters. Psychiatric disorders tend to be subsumed under the biomedical model of mental health and have been critiqued for contributing to iatrogenic harm and stigma in addition to fundamental concerns about their validity and reliability. However, current practice of requiring psychiatric diagnoses within health care systems occurs due to federal regulations and does not allow for the formal use of alternative taxonomies, forcing clinicians and clients into the biomedical model. This article will explicate key stakeholders involved and technicalities dictating the use of psychiatric diagnoses. It will introduce an organizing framework, borrowing from the field of social work accompanied by an example of how the field can move away from the biomedical model given the regulations at play. This article proposes the interdisciplinary development of an alternative nonmedicalized, psychosocial, and codified descriptive problem-based taxonomy that can decouple psychiatric diagnosis from the eligibility for and provision of mental health services.
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