Ordinary ecstasy : the dialectics of humanistic psychology / John Rowan.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 21, 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Introduction; Dialectical thinking; Practical philosophy; PART ONE What is humanistic psychology?; 1 Humanistic psychology is and is not psychology; The Old Saybrook conference; Eastern thought; Science and research; 2 Humanistic psychology is and is not optimistic; Maslow and Mahrer; Rogers and May; Centaur consciousness; 3 How humanistic psychology holds the contradictions; The Wilber model; Authenticity; A digression: Charles Hampden-Turner; How Heidegger got it wrong; PART TWO Applications of humanistic psychology.

4 CounsellingRollo May's contribution; Person-centred counselling; Co-counselling; Dreams; 5 Psychotherapy 1; Gestalt therapy; Experiential psychotherapy; Alvin Mahrer; 6 Psychotherapy 2; Body work; Psychodrama; Primal integration; Psychosynthesis; 7 Group work; The encounter group; The humanistic-existential group; Trust, safety and confrontation; Non-humanistic group work; Self-help and the system; 8 Education and training; Rogers; Confluent education; Experiential learning; The school or college; The wider society; 9 Organizational; Organization development; Hierarchy and bureaucracy.

AlternativesLeadership; The wider scene; Taking power; Transformational management; Spiral dynamics; 10 Transpersonal; The transpersonal self; LSD; Levels of consciousness; Personal and social implications; Paganism; Crosscultural work; Ken Wilber; 11 Female/male/gay; Sexuality; Sex roles; Constructivism and some ways ahead; PART THREE The future of humanistic psychology; 12 The spread of humanistic psychology; 13 Directions for the self; The personality; The real self; Multiple levels of consciousness; Humanistic psychology and the social construction of reality; 14 Directions for society.

Phase one: The universal approachPhase two: Questioning patriarchy; Power and change; Phase three: An integral approach; 15 Some points on theory and research; Basic orientation; Deficiency motivation and abundance motivation; B-values and D-values; Humanistic research; Critiques of humanistic psychology; Journals and magazines; Some useful addresses; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

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