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Election Results
Dear All,Please join me to welcome the following individuals who have been elected to the Division 32, Society for Humanistic Psychology Executive Board:President-Elect:Louis Hoffman Secretary:Brent...
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The Experience of Joy: Interview with Brent Robbins
The following is an interview in the magazine, The Point:Visit your favorite bookstore, in person or online, and search for titles about depression; more than 21,000 are on Amazon.com. Now look for...
View ArticleCall for Student papers: Sidney M. Jourard Student Award Symposium
The Executive Board of Division 32 has committed itself to continuing the tradition of a Student Award Symposium as part of our main convention program at each year's convention. We want to continue...
View ArticleBrent Robbins: Materialism and the Joyless Life
Past President of SHP (Division 32) talks about joy and mindfulness at the Leadership Pittsburgh conference.
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Emotional Distress and Diagnosis: Word on the Street
Lois Holzman reports:“Once you have that label it doesn’t stay at the clinic. You carry it with you for a long time.”“We need to encourage people to speak more public [sic] about the topic of mental...
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Psychological Growth in Aging Vietnam Veterans: Redefining Shame and Betrayal
In a new article published in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Lynne McCormack and Stephen Joseph report: "This study offers alternative interpretations of war-related distress embedded within the...
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The Relationship Between Materialism and Personal Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis
In the Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, researchers Helga Dittmar, Rod Bond, Megan Hurst, and Tim Kassar (2014) report:"This meta-analysis investigates the relationship between...
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Pathways From Personality to Happiness: Sense of Uniqueness as a Mediator
In Journal of Humanistic Psychology, researchers Selda Koydemir, Ömer Faruk Şimşek, and Melikşah Demir report:"Personal sense of uniqueness, a major construct in humanistic psychology, has been...
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Mindfulness at the Heart of Existential-Phenomenology and Humanistic...
In The Humanistic Psychologist researchers Andrew J. Felder, Halle M. Atena, Julie A. Neudeck, Jennifer Shiomi-Chenc, and Brent Dean Robbins report:"The mindfulness ‘foundations’ of...
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Boring but important: A self-transcendent purpose for learning fosters...
In Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, David S. Yeager and colleagues report: "Many important learning tasks feel uninteresting and tedious to learners. This research proposed that...
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In 5 Year Study, Long-Term Psychotherapy Found Superior to Short-Term...
In the Journal of Affective Disorders, Researchers Olavi Lindforsa, Paul Knekta, Erkki Heinonena, Tommi Härkänena, and Esa Virtalaa (2015) conducted a randomized trial comparing short- and long-term...
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Existential Variables of Meaning of Life and Hope Mediate the Relationship...
In Journal of Religion and Health, Marcin Wnuk and Jerzy Tadeusz Macinkowski (2012) investigated the relationship between religious belief and psychological well-being. In this study, they used a...
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Authentic People Are More Psychologically Adjusted and Seen More Accurately...
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Lauren J. Human and colleagues (2014) examined why well-adjusted people seem to be judged more accurately. Their investigation led them to discover that...
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Presence of Meaning in Life Associated with Psychological Well-Being
Viktor Frankl, existential and humanistic psychologist and author of Man's Search for Meaning, pioneered the investigation of meaning in life as an adaptive psychological attribute. In a study that...
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Psychotherapy Found to Be Equally Effective for Racial and Ethnic Minorities...
In a study published in Psychiatric Services, Burçin Ünlü Ince and colleagues (2014) conducted a meta-analysis to investigate whether and how effective psychotherapy is for racial-ethnic minority...
View Article"Is clinical psychology fearful of social context?" -- a lecture by Professor...
Professor Mary Doyle speaking at 2014 Division of Clinical Psychology annual conference in Glasgow.
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Hearing Voices: Tracing the Borders of Normality
In this article, in The Lancet Psychiatry, linked below, Rhianna Goozee talks about the emergence of the Hearing Voices Movement. She discussed the way research has demonstrated how the line between...
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Division 32 President, Krishna Kumar, PhD: My Identity
Race, ethnicity, and religion continue to plague interpersonal relations throughout the world at the individual, societal, and international levels. People appear to hold strong beliefs about racial,...
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Existential Therapy is Evidence Based Practice
Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology is the current dominant paradigm for evaluating psychotherapy practice. At best, its aim is to help assure that therapists develop and utilize the appropriate...
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Psychologists Use the DSM, But Are Dissatisfied With It, New Survey Research...
A recently published study coauthored by Division 32 Fellow Jonathan Raskin looks at psychologist attitudes toward the DSM-5 and finds that psychologists are not particularly satisfied with the...
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Case Study Explores Posttraumatic Growth among Northern Irish Victims of...
In a new study published in Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Jane Simms conducted case studies of three victims of political violence in Northern Ireland. The study was guided by the model of growth...
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Trauma Workers Experience Both Vicarious Trauma and Vicarious Resilience,...
A qualitative study interviewed 1 male and 12 female mental health providers working at torture treatment centers. The mental health providers were all members of the National Consortium of Torture...
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Empirical Support for Carl Rogers' Person-Centered Theory of the "Fully...
Carl Rogers remains one of the most influential psychologists in the field, and continues to inspire not only humanistic psychologists, but psychological theory and practice across the entire field of...
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Faking Orgasms: A Perspective from Feminist Theory and Phenomenology
In an article by Swedish scholar, Hildur Kalman, she explores the concept of "successful sexuality" and its relevance to the phenomenon of the faked orgaism. Kalman explores survey research from Nordic...
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Hate in the Name of Love: Who's the Terrorist Now?
A Discussion of a Hermeneutics of Love versus a Hermeneutics of Suspicionby Alexandria Bright, Point Park UniversityOn Sunday, September 13, 2015, while stopping to eat during a “typical adventure trip...
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