About mid-twentieth century, humanistic psychology emerged as a protest movement against the reductionistic conceptualizations and practices for mainstream psychology. With its mission to return the healthy personality and the self to psychology, humanistic psychology has been successful in psychotherapy.While humanistic psychology reflects the cultural values of the West, it emphasizes the self or the actualizing person and gives no attention to older cultures and non-western systems. Many (humanistic) psychologists became aware that it is necessary to pay more explicit attention to the historical and cultural contexts. To encompass the whole human experience, they conceptualized a transpersonal orientation that extended across, through and beyond personal psychological boundaries. Thus, the transpersonal psychology began.
The purpose of this article is to present how humanistic psychology and transpersonal psychology arose and their influences within psychology.
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