Psy 490.  Person-Centered Education

Fall 2004

READINGS ON HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY

September 14

A. H. Maslow

(1954)  Ch. 5.  A Theory of Human Motivation, from Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Bros.

(1965, July)  Science and Self-Actualization.  Manas, Vol. XVIII (No. 30).

Donald O. Hebb.  (1953).  Heredity and Environment in Mammalian Behaviour, British

Journal of Animal Behavior, 1, 43-47.

September 21

A. H. Maslow

(1959)  Cognition of Being in the Peak Experiences.  Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1, 43-66.

(1959, May) Critique of Self-Actualization I. Some Dangers of Being-Cognition.  Journal of Individual Psychology, 15, 24-32.

(1964, November) Synergy In the Society and In the Individual, Journal of Individual

Psychology, 20, 153-164.

September 28

Carl R. Rogers

(1961)  Ch. 15. Student-Centered Teaching as Experienced by a Participant, from On Becoming a Person.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, pp. 297-313.

(1980)  Part III.  The Process of Education—And Its Future.  Chapters 12-14 from A

Way of Being.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 263-335.

Wilson Van Dusen.  (1958).  Wu Wei, No-Mind, and the Fertile Void in Psychotherapy.

Psychologia, 1, 253-256.

October 5

Rollo May

(1980)  Ch. 1.  Madness and Powerlessness, from Power and Innocence. New York:

                 W. W. Norton, pp. 19-45.

B. F. Skinner

(1948).  Chapter 29, from Walden Two.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,

      pp. 236-260.

October 12

Arthur Warmoth.  (2000-2001, Fall-Winter).  Culture, Somas and Human Development. 

Somatics , pp. 16-21.

Eleanor Criswell.  (2003).  A Challenge to Humanistic Psychology in the 21st Century. 

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 43 (3), 42-52.

David Hiles.  (2000).  Defining the Paradigm of Humanistic-Existential Psychology.  Draft Version.