Humanistic psychology

Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century in response to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and B.F. Skinner's Behaviorism.^[1]With its roots running from Socrates through the Renaissance, this approach emphasizes an individual's inherent drive towards self-actualization and creativity. 
The humanistic approach has its  roots In phenomenological and existentialist thought^[8] 
(see Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Pontyand Sartre). Eastern philosophy and psychology also play a central role in humanistic psychology, as well as Judeo-Christian philosophies ofpersonalism, as each shares similar concerns about the nature of human existence and consciousness. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia