The Humanistic Psychologist, Vol 52(1), Mar 2024, 1-19; doi:10.1037/hum0000315
This article traces the early history of existential-humanistic developmental psychology. It is argued that this area of inquiry was built upon the pioneering work of a heterogeneous array of authors from numerous backgrounds, including American humanistic psychology, European existential and phenomenological psychology, social and self-styled psychoanalysis, personalistic psychology, comparative psychology, Gestalt psychology, education and pedagogy, philosophy, and anthropology. The conceptual yield of the historical overview was distilled down to a cluster of four broad themes: the whole developing person-in-context, lived time, the living body, and an enduring call to pedagogy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)