Humanistic Psychology: One Of The Founding Father Of Humanism

Humanistic Psychology also known as humanism was created in the 1950’s emerging from psychoanalysis. Humanistic psychology based itself more on each individual’s potential and importance of growth and self-actualization. The humanism perspective can be broken down into two different parts focusing on completely different points that in a way come back together and explain one another. Both perspectives can describe each individual as figuring out the best that one can become. Seeking fulfillment is a goal for many that humanism describes as being able to achieve it the individual agrees to search for it. Humanism teaches that anyone is free to become themselves if they choose that path.

Carl Rogers was one of the founding fathers of humanistic psychology. Born in 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois the fourth of six children to Walter and Julia Rogers. In 1919 he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a major in agriculture but later changed to religion. In 1922 he attended a Christian conference in China where he began to question the major he choose to

Watson often referred as the founding father of behaviorism. Born in 1878 in Greenville, South Carolina, to Emma and Pickens Watson. Growing up with a very religious mother he opposed religion. As a young adult Watson was very troubled he got arrested for fighting and disorderly behavior twice, academically he performed very badly. His mother had some very important connections that allowed him to be accepted into Furman University in South Carolina. Watson earned his Bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago, in 1903 received his doctorate and became an associate professor of psychology at John Hopkins University later on. He believed that psychology should be seen as behavioral and should be subject to predict and control such actions. Watson believed that the experimental study should be based between environmental and human behavior.