Our Vision and Values

Our Purpose

The  purpose of AHP, as set out in the objects contained in the company’s Memorandum of Association, is to:

“Benefit the public by furthering the education of the public in humanistic psychology, by promoting educational events and publications,  and to achieve this by publishing a bi-monthly magazine, “Self & Society”, and holding training courses on Humanistic Psychology”

Our Values

The five basic postulates of Humanistic Psychology are:

• Human beings, as human, supersede the sum of their parts.  They cannot be reduced to components.
• Human beings have their existence in a uniquely human context, as well as in a cosmic ecology.
• Human beings are aware and aware of being aware – i.e., they are conscious.  Human consciousness always includes an awareness of oneself in the context of other people.
• Human beings have some choice and, with that, responsibility.
• Human beings are intentional, aim at goals, are aware that they cause future events, and seek meaning, value and creativity.

Adapted by Tom Greening from J F T Bugental’s “The Third Force in Psychology” (Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1964, Vol.4, No.1, pp.19-25).