Personal growth and self-fulfillment are natural strivings of our innate good nature, the natural unfolding of our unique and precious self. He identified the characteristics of persons who had fulfilled their potential so that we could understand the process of A self-actualization. Fritz Perls developed Gestalt therapy. Today Cognitive Psychology focuses on reasoning and mental processing of information. This currently favored approach to psychology studies processes of the mind such as memory, attention, decision-making, imagery and problem solving.
Cognitive psychologists believe our thinking is the key causal factor in behavior.
It is not the event or environment that disturbs us, but our thought or beliefs about a situation that creates havoc in our lives. Cognitive psychologists are developing objective methods to study mental processing and decision-making. It has become obvious that there are strong relationships between the body, the mind and human behavior. Advances in research on the brain, nervous system, mental illness, genetics and psychopharmacology have stimulated vast research into the way our bodies affect our minds and vice versa. Advocates of the Biopsychological Perspective argue that much of human behavior can be explained in terms of bodily processes and structures, genetics and biochemical processes.