Selected Writings of Maureen O'Hara on the Art, Science, and Hope of Humanism

Vitalising Persons for Turbulent Times
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85697-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

This book presents the work of the eminent British-American psychologist, Maureen O’Hara. It explores the trajectory of humanistic psychology over the last few decades, providing a link between its original proponents, notably Carl Rogers, and its contemporary manifestations.

The text reproduces 18 of O’Hara’s original papers arranged in six parts, each of which reflect a significant area in which she has contributed her rigorous analysis and creative thinking, i.e., the person-centred approach, humanistic psychology, third force science, client-centred therapy, psychology futures, and education. A unique feature of the book is a series of dialogues about O’Hara’s contributions in each of these areas with the book’s editor, Keith Tudor. The dialogues reveal not only O’Hara’s reflections on and further thinking about each area of her contributions, but also how prescient her analysis was, and how contemporary and relevant her thinking still is.

Bringing together a collection of O’Hara’s works to a broader audience, this book will be of interest to humanistic psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as those studying and/or training in this field.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tudor, Keith

O'Hara, Maureen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Humanistische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Streams: On becoming a postmodern person (1995)

2. Reflections on becoming and being a postmodern person

Part I: The person-centred approach

3. Person-centred approach as conscientização: The works of Carl Rogers and Paulo Freire (1989)

4. Carl Rogers: Scientist and mystic (1995)

5. Reflections on Maureen O’Hara’s writings on the person-centred approach

Part II: Humanistic psychology

6. Our foremothers as gurus (1983)

7. Relational humanism: A psychology for a pluralistic world (1992)

8. Constructing emancipatory realities: Towards a feministic voice in humanistic psychology (1995)

9. Emancipatory therapeutic practice in a turbulent transmodern era: A work of retrieval (1997)

10. Reflections on Maureen O’Hara’s writings on humanistic psychology

Part III: Third force science

11. A hundredth monkey myth (1983)

12. Science, pseudoscience, and mythmongering (1988)

13. Is it time for clinical psychology to deconstruct constructivism? (1995)

14. Reflections on Maureen O’Hara’s writings on third force science

Part IV: Client-centred therapy

15. Feminist ‘postmodern’ analysis of a session of psychotherapy between Carl Rogers and a woman client volunteer ‘Sylvia’ (1996)

16. Relational empathy: Beyond modernist egocentricism to postmodern holistic contextualism (1997)

17. Moments of eternity: What Carl Rogers still has to offer brief therapists (2002)

18. Reflections on Maureen O’Hara’s writings on client-centred therapy

Part V: Psychology futures

19. Alternative psychological scenarios for the coming global age (2001)

20. Another inconvenient truth and the developmental role for psychology in a threatened world (2010)

21. Reflections on Maureen O’Hara’s writings on psychology futures

Part VI: Education

22. The challenge for education in uncertain times (2005)

23. Frames and games: Hard science vs. difficult science in psychotherapy training (2010)

24. Generation open: The future of higher education in a DIY world (2011)

25. Reflections on Maureen O’Hara’s writings on education

Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Tudor is Professor of Psychotherapy at Auckland University of Technology, Aotearoa New Zealand, where he is also currently a co-Lead of Moana Nui Research in the Psychological Therapies. He is the author and/or editor of over 100 publications on various aspects of person-centred psychology, including (with the late Berne Neville) Eco-centred Therapy: Revisioning Person-centred Psychology for a Living World (Routledge, 2023).

Maureen O'Hara is Director of the International Futures Forum US, Professor Emerita of Psychology at National University, San Diego, CA and President Emerita of Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, CA. Working closely with American psychologist Dr Carl R. Rogers for two decades, she helped develop the person-centred approach to psychotherapy and large group process.