Society for Humanistic Psychology

Lecture: "Facing Death: Existential Theory Applied to Clinical Work with the Terminally Ill" by Dr. Brent Robbins youtube.com/watch?v=a2R_Ll…

"Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise 'ordinary human unhappiness'." newstatesman.com/politics/healt…

Study: Amor Fati (loving one's fate), resilient coping, and authenticity predict depression and happiness. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

This syndrome occur in a third of newborns of mothers who have taken SSRIs or SNRIs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34336063/

Study: "This qualitative study aimed to analyze therapists’ reactions to the Israel-Hamas war, using lenses offered by Terror Management Theory (TMT). Israeli therapists (N = 201) were asked to share their experiences, feelings and perceptions in light of the events and their…

“The phenomenon of love, ultimately, shows the facticity of the ‘all with all’, the basic phenomenon of togetherness, rather than the ‘all against all’ which transpires through Heidegger’s analysis of anxiety and the ‘Jemeinigkeit’ of one’s death.” -- Ludwig Binswanger

Living near trees and parks may do more than lift children’s spirits—it may shape their brains. New research reveals that greener neighborhoods are associated with stronger brain structure, better behavior, and enhanced cognitive skills in children aged… dlvr.it/TM5fHN

"More than a third of women going through menopause or perimenopause are prescribed Zoloft, Prozac, Wellbutrin or other common antidepressants. Their use among women doubles during these years. More women’s health experts now say the vast majority never needed them. The…

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." -- Goethe

Study: "mindfulness of death was an important practice that contributed to how participants understood their relationship with dying and living. It had contributed to their focus on values-based living and mindfulness in relationships. The participants also reported deepening…

Participatory Research in India Redefines Who Gets to Create Mental Health Knowledge Participatory action research yields novel insights and elicits a sense of pride and empowerment, particularly in low-resource settings. By Joe Huang madinamerica.com/2025/07/partic…

Study: "Therapists’ use of supportive techniques seems to influence the therapeutic alliance positively in patients with personality disorders." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Article: The Philosophical Health Compass (PHC) evaluates six dimensions of philosophical health identified through previous research: bodily sense, sense of self, sense of belonging, sense of the possible, sense of purpose, and philosophical sense. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

What Clients Say They Get From Therapy—And It’s Not Just Fewer Symptoms New study shows that clients value growth, self-understanding, and connection more than diagnostic relief. By Ashley Bobak, PsyD madinamerica.com/2025/07/therap…

Article: "This paper aims to introduce the philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) and explore its potential contributions to contemporary psychology. The focus is on the concept of the ‘jovial spirit’, a resilient and joyful approach to life that embraces existential…

Article: Four studies "found that feeling listened to by colleagues led to increased perceptions of companionate love in the organization, which, in turn, increased employees' subjective well-being, resilience, affective organizational commitment, and willingness to collaborate."…

"Binswanger’s phenomenology of love offers [an] approach [where] the meeting with the ontic other, although it cannot contain the infinity and borderlessness of love, can conserve and hold onto the (infinite) meaning arising out of the encounter with the concrete other, the very…

Article: Offers an account of infinite human final value that works using hyperreals or other non-Archimedean ordered fields, and provides a framework in which we can understand what it means to say that a person has infinite value. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

"Despite its centrality to person-centered psychology, the concept of the person is under-theorized." Three suggestions for a way forward: tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Article "...well-being science needs to re-center the person in research to accurately assess the dynamic nature and unique determinants of well-being. We first discuss why well-being is best captured as a dynamic system consisting of unique determinants informed by…