Humanistic Psychology

Mogar, R. E. "Current Status and Future Trends in Psychedelic (LSD) Research," Journal of Humanistic Psychology 4, 147-66,1965a. 

Mogar, R. E. "Psychedelic (LSD) Research Critical Review of Methods and Results. In /. F. T. Bugental (ed.) Challenges of Humanistic Psychology. New York McGraw-Hill, 1967. 

Rowan, J. (1998) Maslow amended. ]oumal of Humanistic Psychology 38 (1), 81-93. 

Even though a decade and a half has passed since the panic of the mid-1960s, federal regulations and hospital "Human Rights committees continue to block requests to use psychedelics on humans. They are afraid of negative publicity and lawsuits. When Walter Houston Clark inserted a questionnaire addressed to research professionals in Behavior Today and the Newsletter of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, nearly all who replied stated that they would like to do psychedelic research. 

Villoldo, A. 1977. An introduction to the psychedelic psychotherapy of Salvador Roquet. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 17 45-58. 

Barrel , J. J. et al. (1985). The causes and treatment of performance anxiety An experiential approach. Journal of Humanistic Psychology 25 106-22. 

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Both in operation and in terms of study, this route is complicated by our predominant cultural bias of not really paying much attention to our bodies. Our bodies are too seldom thought of as sources of information. Researchers in humanistic and transpersonal psychology are just beginning to find out that the body has a wisdom of its own—a brain of its own, as it were—that can provide us with information about ourselves and external reality and process that information. Carlos Castaneda, for example, has told me that in Don Juan s system, a sorcerer considers his body a major source of information about the world around him the sensations in his body will tell him a great deal about events that otherwise would not be perceived through ordinary sensory channels. 

Against the brutal romanticism of German Blood and Earth, Bohr set the subtle corrective of complementarity. He spoke of the dangers, well known to humanists, of judging from our own standpoint cultures developed within other societies. Complementarity, he proposed, offered a way to cope with the confusion. Subject and object interact to obscure each other in cultural comparisons as in physics and psychology we may truly say that different human cultures are complementary to each other. Indeed, each such culture represents a harmonious balance of traditional conventions by means of which latent possibilities of human life can unfold themselves in a way which reveals to us new aspects of its unlimited richness and variety. ... 

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