Ideas That Matter: Humanistic Psychology, Past, Present, and Future

A paper on “The Search for Challenge” by sociologist David Riesman begins a new feature of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JHP) . Periodically, various scholars in humanistic psychology will be invited to present their reactions to particular, important papers in the history of the field. Riesman, a leading social thinker in the post–World War II era, was a founding editorial board member of JHP. This article, published shortly before JHP was launched, has considerable relevance for our own time; the five scholars who have provided their reactions offer a diversity of intriguing viewpoints.