My Early Engagement with Humanistic Psychology

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SYNOPSISI have been invited by the editors to contribute an article with the above title to Self and Society. I cover the period from 1970 to 1985, which includes: the launch of the Human Potential Research Project and its humanistic extramural programmes at the University of Surrey; the start of co-counselling in the UK and Europe and the birth of Co-counselling International; humanistic innovations in postgraduate medical education at the University of London; the dawn, development and coming of age of the participatory action-research method of co-operative inquiry; the founding and humanistic psychology diploma work of the independent Institute for the Development of Human Potential; strategies of soft revolution; and the grounding value of comradeship. The interacting triad of autonomy, cooperation and hierarchy is a theme that runs through the whole.

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