Psychology › Section K · Personality › Topic K.5
Humanistic approaches
Freud studied people in distress and the behaviourists studied rats and pigeons. In the middle of the 20th century, humanistic psychologists asked a different question: what does a healthy, growing person look like, and what helps someone become their best self?
In this topic
- The third force
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- Self-actualisation
- Rogers: the self-concept
- Conditions of worth and unconditional regard
- Worked example: real self and ideal self
- From theory to therapy
- Weighing the evidence
- Worked example: testing Maslow
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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