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1. Maslow's 4 Stages of Learning January 31, 2012 Many life coaches derive their practices from the tenants of humanistic psychology and positive psychology. Humanistic psychology was a precursor to the modern movement of positive psychology. It focused on a holistic approach to human existence that emphasized meaning, values, and freedom. One of the most important psychologists of this school of thought was Abraham Maslow. In addition to his Hierarchy of Needs that many people are aware of, he also developed what became known as the 4 Stages of Learning (or Competence). It can be a very helpful framework to understand when approaching your o... (read more) Author: Simon Boutros

2. Preparing For An Intro To Psychology Course January 19, 2012 This viewpoint makes important intrinsic motivation, realizing a person's need for self-actualization or the need for self-determination. By a humanistic perspective, motivation comes in the form of encouraging inner solutions like competence, self-esteem, autonomy, and additionally self-worth. The cognitive approach to motivation asserts people do not respond to usb events or real conditions, but rather on their interpretations of those events. People are seen as active and interesting, searching for information to solve personally relevant difficulties. Motivation comes from the truth that... (read more) Author: Antoine Mcneil

3. Details of Transpersonal Psychology - Humans July 16, 2011 In recent years there has been considerable effort to increase awareness among human beings. Within the field of psychology there is a move that expands the field of psychological research. It draws from both Western science and traditional wisdom of the East in an attempt to integrate both sources of knowledge. Abraham Maslow was one of the main precursors of Humanistic Psychology. Maslow pointed out the possibility of reaching a state of being beyond the self. This state is the transcendence of the limits of identity and experience, reaching higher levels of consciousness that has very posit... (read more) Author: Saqib Mohammed

4. Why seek a Psychologist? May 11, 2011 Psychology means the study of the soul. It is the science dedicated to studying the individual in its essence: his mind, reason, instincts, desires, emotions, behaviors, and conflicts in their relationships with others and with himself.There are many ways to understand and conceptualize the psychological contents and, depending on the focus of this analysis, there are different theories that will explain and understand human nature, so-called approaches or theoretical lines of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Existential-Humanistic Psychology, the Psychodrama, Behavioral Psychology, among others... (read more) Author: Vagas Empregos

5. The Humanist Movement and Its Study May 07, 2011 For five decades, the Humanistic Psychology and Psychology Books has penetrated very significantly in academic circles, both undergraduate and graduate-level theoretical and practical level. First it was more like protest and alternative classics of the two currents in psychology, psychoanalysis and behaviorism, then presenting a holistic, coherent and logical, the provision of rich and complex human being. This holistic view has been strengthened with a strong epistemological foundation of his approach and the development and structuring of appropriate methodologies and techniques and more sp... (read more) Author: Saqib Mohammed

6. Astrology is knowledge of nature purely transpersonal. March 27, 2011 Astrology among other things is a form of knowledge, a way of "knowing" (according to the dictionary it is 1 - provide exercise for intellectual faculties, the nature, qualities and relations of things 2 - Have anyone the treatment and communication with 3-presume or guess what may happen). Why transpersonal? Transpersonal theory examines the concerns, motivations and experiences that transcend the sphere of personality or ego. The transpersonal view emerged from the meeting of the Western humanistic psychology and Eastern contemplative traditions. What differentiates it from other perspectiv... (read more) Author: astrology india

7. Anxiety Disorders and Survival November 20, 2009 Generalized anxiety, anxiety attacks and panic attacks, OCD, PTSD and even depression - all of these problems involve fear, anxiety and panic. And fear, anxiety and panic are all about one thing: survival. It is the main drive of every living thing – to survive and reproduce (so that our genes survive). It drives everything we do – every waking second and every sleeping second, every conscious minute and every unconscious minute. Anxiety-related problems are all formed around this drive to survive. Carl Rogers, perhaps one of the most influential psychologists in American history, foun... (read more) Author: Terry Dixon

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