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Table of Contents

I — The Historical Context.- 1 Psychology: Humanistic or Human?.- 2 Humanistic Psychology and Metapsychology.- 3 The Impact of Phenomenological and Existential Philosophies on Psychiatry and Psychotherapy.- II — Experiencing and Epistemology.- 4 Discontinuities: Or Theory as Prayer.- 5 Why Man is Prior to Science in any Science of Man: The Epistemological Order of Value and Fact.- 6 Toward an Epistemological Basis for Humanistic Psychology.- III — Paradigm and Method.- 7 The Duality of Experience and the Perplexities of Method.- 8 Descriptive Methods for Inquiry in Human Psychology.- IV — Interdisciplinary Perspectives.- 9 The Anthropological Foundations of a Humane Psychology.- 10 Naturalism, Humanism, and the Theory of Action.- V — Critical Analysis.- 11 The very Idea of a “Humanistic Psychology”.- 12 Humanistic Psychology as a Protest Movement.- 13 Epilogue.- Author Index.