Subfield Humanistic Psychology
With each major perspective in psychology, there are many subfields, and no matter which branch you are looking into they all seem to go back and forth with one another. I find it interesting that each time I’m reading I will look up a term then be able to cross-reference it with another and so on and so forth until I have gone in a complete circle of terms. Psychology is its own language and just like every language known to man, the terminology can interchange frequently and if you misuse a word or place one incorrectly, it can throw off the entire meaning and leave cause for miscommunication. That being said, when we look at neuroscience, which according to the table is said to be hereditary in nature, we can then move down to the subfield
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Humanistic psychologies seek to uphold values and resist demoralization in beings and behaviors pertaining to a human conscience that is guided by individual standards and not by fear of external authority. Humanistic psychology also uses an internal emphasis in determining behavior and relies on the free will of a human being because it implies they have a choice with morals to guide them to making the right one. Free will, in the APA Dictionary of Psychology, “is the power of capacity of a human being for self-direction. The function of the will is to be inclined or disposed toward an idea or action. The concept of free will thus suggests that inclinations, dispositions, thoughts, and actions are not determined entirely by forces over which people have no independent directing influence. Free will is generally seen as necessary for moral action and responsibility and is implied by much of our everyday experience, in which we are conscious of having the power to forbear (see paradox freedom). However, it has often been dismissed as illusory by advocates of determinism, who hold that all occurrences, including human actions, are predetermined.” Humanistic therapy is a subfield of humanistic psychology and defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology is “any variety of psychotherapeutic approaches that reject psychoanalytic behavioral approaches; seek to foster personal growth through direct experience and focus on development of human potential, the here and now, concrete personality change, and the responsibility for oneself, and trust in natural process and spontaneous feeling. Examples of are client centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, essential psychotherapy, and experiential
Humanistic psychologies seek to uphold values and resist demoralization in beings and behaviors pertaining to a human conscience that is guided by individual standards and not by fear of external authority. Humanistic psychology also uses an internal emphasis in determining behavior and relies on the free will of a human being because it implies they have a choice with morals to guide them to making the right one. Free will, in the APA Dictionary of Psychology, “is the power of capacity of a human being for self-direction. The function of the will is to be inclined or disposed toward an idea or action. The concept of free will thus suggests that inclinations, dispositions, thoughts, and actions are not determined entirely by forces over which people have no independent directing influence. Free will is generally seen as necessary for moral action and responsibility and is implied by much of our everyday experience, in which we are conscious of having the power to forbear (see paradox freedom). However, it has often been dismissed as illusory by advocates of determinism, who hold that all occurrences, including human actions, are predetermined.” Humanistic therapy is a subfield of humanistic psychology and defined by the APA Dictionary of Psychology is “any variety of psychotherapeutic approaches that reject psychoanalytic behavioral approaches; seek to foster personal growth through direct experience and focus on development of human potential, the here and now, concrete personality change, and the responsibility for oneself, and trust in natural process and spontaneous feeling. Examples of are client centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, essential psychotherapy, and experiential