Therapy is a two-way process of relationship. Confrontation shows the client the maladaptive attitudes, beliefs etc. Therapy with the adult enables regressive issues to be contradicted in the present. One aim of therapy is uncovering and re-educating the real self. Emphasis is on experiential learning, humans learn from experience.
Congruence is sought in thought and action.
A non-judgmental and inclusive attitude is adopted. Trust is adopted. People are assumed to be good rather than bad. Humanistic Approaches in Relation to Other Modalities Humanistic psychology developed in the USA within the academic psychology establishment as a reaction to the behavioural and analytic emphasis of the time. Humanistic approaches are not complementary to the others but, coming later and incorporating their lessons, are developments of and advances over them.