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.
Humanistic approaches are a synthesis of analytic, behavioural, existential models.
There is no evidence to support one theory of psychotherapy over another. Humanistic psychology incorporates psychoanalytic and behavioural orientations within a broader phenomenological orientation that emphasises human experience and meaning. To these might be added transpersonal influences of a more general kind.