Positive Psychology and Humanistic Psychology: A Reply to Seligman

By E. Taylor. 2001

128 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. S. Joseph
2. P. Alex Linley
3. Jeffrey J. Froh
4. G. Bono
5. L. Oades
6. B. Robbins
7. John Wiley
8. M. McCullough

In Social Psychology

1. S. Joseph
2. P. Alex Linley
3. Jeffrey J. Froh
4. G. Bono
5. Alex M. Wood
6. L. Oades
7. B. Robbins
8. John Maltby

Citations in the corpus

• What is the Good Life? Positive Psychology and the Renaissance of Humanistic Psychology (2008, background): “…goals of humanistic and positive psychology, positive psychology has received a much colder reception from humanistic psychologists than might be expected (e.g., Bohart & Greening , 2001; Held, 2004; S. B. Shapiro, 2001; Sugarman, 2007; Sundararajan, 2005; Taylor, 2001; Woolfolk & Wasserman, 2005).”
• The History of Positive Psychology: Truth Be Told (2004, background): “However, Taylor (2001) suggests that these remarks, which imply that humanistic psychology is anti-scientific, are actually the result of differing ideas of what constitutes research.”
• Positive Responses to Benefit and Harm: Bringing Forgiveness and Gratitude Into Cognitive Psychotherapy (2006, background): “Recently psychologists have reached a consensus that research has seriously neglected the strengths of human behavior (Fredrickson, 1998; McCullough & Snyder, 2000; Myers & Diener, 1995; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000; Taylor, 2001).”
• Systems informed positive psychology (2020, background): “William James has been called ‘America’s first positive psychologist’ (Taylor, 2001, p. 15) as he consideredwhat distinguished optimal human function and noted the importance of including subjective perspectives in understanding human experiences.”
• On Being Positive: Concerns and Counterpoints (2006, background): “In their different ways, humanistic writers/therapists such as Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, and Victor Frankl have concerned themselves with the positive features of human functioning (Bohart & Greening, 2001; Lazarus, 2003; Shapiro, 2001; Taylor, 2001; Tennen & Affleck, 2003; Wright, 200”
• Positive psychology in practice (2004, background): “For the cancer patients in Taylor and Lobel’s (1989) study, upward contacts with cancer survivors may have worked out because the patients saw cancer status as a relevant comparison dimension, while individuals who had recovered did not.”