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Beyond a mere ego-centered concept, dynamic theories of personality merged between the 1940s and the 1960s to produce existential-humanistic and transpersonal psychology. The creative and diamonic forces at work that allowed this to come about were many. First, was the Americanization of European forms of existentialism and phenomenology and their absorption into the new movement called humanistic psychology. This led to the valorization of the psychotherapeutic hour over artificial modeling in the laboratory, as well as a major epistemological critique of positivistic reductionism in experimental science. Second, was the radicalization of psychoanalysis, leading to forms of depth psychology that mixed the iconography of the transcendent and new experiential forms of learning with radical forms of social activism directed against traditional psychology and psychiatry.
All of us are called to make something of life that respects yet reaches beyond our mere materiality and vitality
Adrian van Kaam
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Taylor, E. (2009). An Existential-Humanistic and Transpersonally Oriented Depth Psychology. In: The Mystery of Personality. Library of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-98104-8_10
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