Who Coined the Term «Humanistic Psychology»?

Greening (1985, 1988) and DeCarvalho (1990) ascribed Stephen Cohen, Maslow's then son-in-law, the honor to have been the first to suggest the term "humanistic psychology." He suggested it in 1959 as a name for the "third force" movement of psychologists who, discontented with mainstream behavioristic and psychoanalytical psychologies, joined Abraham Maslow and Anthony Sutich in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. A quote in an article (1930) by Gordon Allport suggests that Allport was the first to employ the term, humanistic psychology. Ignorance of Allport's use of the term humanistic psychology is symbolic of a much larger ignorance of Allport's participation in the humanistic current in American psychology, not only in the texts of the history and the systems of psychology, but unfortunately also among humanistic psychologists themselves.

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The Humanistic psychologist. – 1990. – Vol. 18, № 3. – P. 350–351.