David Lukoff Ph.D., co-President of Association for Transpersonal Psychology and executive faculty at Saybrook, has recently begun to share transpersonal psychology treasures with this website.

Humanistic psychology emerged as a response to the inadequacy of then-current methods and ways of thinking.

Over the last forty years, humanistic psychology, the "third force" in psychology, has developed and formed alliances with a dozen related psychologies to form an integral network of psychologies. We need them all as we begin the 21st Century.

We are aware that while it is the starting of the new Millinneum A.D., it is also about 1400 on the Islamic calendar, about 5600 on the Jewish calendar, about 25,000 on the Mayan. (We need help with precise dates please.) Our world is so diverse and in such turmoil. Clear and humane thinking is urgently needed.

Humanistic psychology sprang from a fortuitous confluence of people and ideas at the beginning of the 1960s. Signal works by exemplars have come into such common currency that they are taken for granted as assets in mainstream culture.

Maslow's hierarchy of human needs, self-actualization, and transpersonal work, Rogers' person-centered therapy and education, his active listening work, and his humanistic citizen diplomacy, Jourard's concept of transparency, Satir's breakthrough understanding of family systems, May's existential and arts work - in one form or another, these are all current staples now in this and other cultures.

The website is organized along the following pattern:

The website gives its appreciation for the Introduction to Humanistic Psychology which comes from the AHP website. A hypertext link is provided to go there.

Writings on the History of Humanistic Psychology come from the OS2 Project website. Thanks to them.

The Online Library has it prime alphabetical listings from the OS2 website. A number of other hypertext links lead to other substantial resources, such as the humanistic psychology collection at University of California Santa Barbara and the Victor Daniels' referencecollections on several subjects at Sonoma State.

The first draft Online Bookstore takes you to the AHP's online bookstore. All proceeds from use of that bookstore would go to AHP.

The Five Exemplars section features first the rich Carl Rogers website newly developed by Natalie Rogers, his daughter. The other four exemplar materials will be developed over the course of the coming months.

Member Programs shows CHTP members as of 2000-2001. (As you know, at that time the present Council for Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychologies was called the Consortium for Diversified Psychology Programs.)

We congratulate our Webmaster James Chan, for his fine and creative web development work, which has been most valuable.

Most sincerely,

Skip Robinson Ph.D. Eleanor Criswell, Ed.D Art Warmoth, Ph.D.
CHTP Website Editors