This document discusses humanism and the psychology of human growth according to Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Key points include: Rogers believed people have an innate desire for growth and becoming their "real self" through unconditional positive self-regard. Maslow identified qualities of self-actualized people and developed a hierarchy of needs model showing how lower needs must be met before growth is possible. Both emphasized focusing on strengths rather than limitations to achieve one's full potential.

1. The Psychology of Humanism
The Third Force
Carl Rogers
&
Abraham Maslow

2. Growth & Health
• Uniqueness of a person’s values and experiences
• person-centered
• Humanism’s assumption = people have an innate
desire for growth

3. Growth perspective
• Freud’s starting point:
• unconscious desires
• Man’s basic irrationality
• Growth is resolving
• neurotic conflicts

4. Carl Rogers
• The ‘self’ is our overall
perception of our
abilities throughout
time (how you see
yourself)
• SELF CONCEPT
• This self emerges from
individual experiences
with the world.

5. Real Self
Real Self - what a
person is capable of
becoming in an ideal
world
Unconditional positive regard
“I love you no matter what”
Can you say that to yourself and
mean it?

6. Ideal self
Ideal Self - not shaped
only by personal desires
but by also by other
people’s desires and
idea of our self worth
Who do you wish
you were?

7. self-actualized person

8. Organismic valuing
• Actualizing tendency
• We like what we need. If we
trust our instincts, we will
eat and behave in ways that
contribute to our well
being.
• We evolved to favour
colours because they
indicate ripeness in fruit.

9. Positive Regard
• We value and need
positive regard from
others but we also need
it from ourselves-
positive self regard

10. conditional positive regard
• External measurement
of a person’s worth are
everywhere conditions
of worth
• Powerful behavioural
shaper.
• We need positive
regard from others,
even if it means
(sometimes) not acting
in our own best

11. conditional positive regard
• Over time, this
conditioning leads to
conditional positive
self-regard.
• “I like myself only
when I measure up to
standards others have
imposed.”

12. rogers - Ideal Self

13. Pause the video
• and ask yourself these questions...
• Is it possible to have unconditional positive regard for
others?
• What is the role of boundaries and conditions in
relationships?
• Is it possible to have and give this to yourself?

14. Abraham Maslow
• Terrible childhood
• Alcoholic father
• Abusive mother
• Both were miserly and
unloving
• Set out to model his
own life against
successful people

15. Virtues of Self actualized people
• Reality-centered
• Enjoyed solitude
• Autonomous
• Resisted conformity
• Humble
• Respectful
• Value deep connections

16. Albert
Einstein
“Few are those who see
with their own eyes and
feel with their own
hearts.”

17. Eleanor
Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people.

18. Portrait of success
• Open to new experiences
• Constantly evolving and growing
• A love of learning

19. Hierarchy of
Needs
Growth depends on
fulfillment of needs at
every level

20. growth
orientation
Focus on what you can do
instead of what you can’t
Rick Hansen’s Man in Motion Tour

22. Summary
• Rogers > our natural
state is good. Pay
attention to that in
order to become your
true self.
• Maslow > Anyone can
achieve their potential.
Do not focus on unmet
needs but look at what
you have instead.