Humanistic Psychology by John Cohen - 9781041063155

Humanistic PsychologyAuthor(s): John Cohen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781041063155, 978-1041063155\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1958, Humanistic Psychology opens with a consideration of the many different ways in which a system of psychology can be built. Professor Cohen takes an entirely different view from that which suggests that a knowledge of the brain will eventually tell us all we need to know about the mind. The qualities of human experience are peculiar to themselves and cannot be reduced only to the activities of the central nervous system.\n\nPsychology, it is then suggested, must begin with the meaning of experience from the inside. This meaning can be deciphered only in terms of the past which has shaped our minds and of the future which we envisage as beckoning us. Four fundamental themes are chosen to illustrate this conception of psychology: first, the successive stages of emotional and social.