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The Humanistic Approach

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The humanistic approach explains personality through conscious experience, self-concept, and the drive toward realizing one's potential.

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A therapist takes a client's own account of who they are as the material to work with.

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Self-actualization has resisted operational definition, which has kept the approach at the edge of the empirical literature.