The Humanistic Perspective is one that does not quite fit into any of the five major perspectives. It began with Abraham Maslow who believed that emphasis on unconsciousness was negative and pessimistic. He, along with others thought that this disregarded human resilience and the ability to be joyous. Maslow felt that the behavioral approach to psychology was too mechanistic and ‘mindless’, ignoring that fact that different people have different dreams. Basically, the Humanistic Perspective says that people have free will and because of this they can be more than what the psychologists in other v

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