Full Description
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 reflects 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.
Contents
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
