Developed by psychologists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, humanistic psychology emphasizes human potential and takes a more positive view of the human nature. During the mid-1900s, an individual with an anger disorder would attend therapy sessions with a psychoanalyst. Instead of asking questions about the patient’s past, the psychoanalyst would approach the client with positive energy and humanistic therapy techniques. Humanistic therapists would invoke conversations about the client’s ambitions, passions, and desires in efforts to absolve the anger and replace it with positive …show more content…
Culture is the shared knowledge, values, beliefs, and experiences of a group of people. Therefore, cultural psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral inclinations in civilization. Cultural psychologists study social practices, and how those practices effect the development of cognitive processes of the human brain. A patient with an anger disorder might visit a cultural psychologist to discuss the rationale of the issue. By looking at everything from mannerisms and age, to occupation and religion, a cultural psychologist could help understand the source of the patient’s anger and make the patient more conscious of