On a recent trip to Japan, I invited Shoji Muramoto, a longtime leader in Japanese humanistic psychology, to offer his view on the past, present, and future of this branch of psychological thought.

Psychological perspectives offer different ways of thinking about and explaining human behavior. The seven major psychological perspectives are: psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, ...

Humanistic psychology is an approach to therapy that emphasizes what makes us human. Practitioners believe that individuals are self-aware, can take responsibility for their actions, and have the ...