OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Humanistic Psychology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
“It’s Possible and There’s People Doing It Now”: Examining Experiences of Organizers and Health Professionals in Creating Community-Based Alternatives to Emergency Crisis Care	26
Canonical Narratives as a Tool of Analysis in Psychology	16
Clocks, Mirrors, Plants: Processes of Gender Shifts Among Adults During COVID-19	13
New Light on Maslow’s Discovery of Daoism: A Reaction Paper	12
Ilene Serlin Tribute	12
Loneliness in the Context of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s Life	11
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eupsychia	11
“It’s Allowed Me to Be a Lot Kinder to Myself”: Exploration of the Self-Transformative Properties of Solitude During COVID-19 Lockdowns	10
Effects of a Brief Spiritual Intervention on Perceived Stress During COVID-19	10
No Woman, No Cry: A Tribute to Dr. Donna Rockwell	10
Equity, Public Health Messaging, and Traditional Māori Knowledge: The Te Ranga Tupua COVID-19 Response	8
Cat’s Cradle and the Threads of Maslow’s Humanistic Meditation	8
A 15-Year Progress Report on the Presence of Humanistic/Existential Psychology Principles in Mental Health Outcome Measurement: Thematic Discourse and Summative Content Analyses	8
Existential Concerns Arising From a Threat to the Belief in a Just World: A Mixed-Methods Study	8
A Grounded Theory of the Process of Healing From Opioid Addiction	7
Corrigendum to “Autistic Consumer Audit of UC Davis MIND Institute’s Mutant Angelman Mice and Their Translational Value Toward the Human Autistic Experience”	7
Dhikr as Mindfulness: Meditative Remembrance in Sufism	7
And the Children Shall Lead: Abraham Maslow and the Adventure of Science	6
Effects of Mortality Salience and Religion on Aggression	6
Enriching Lives Through Contributions to Society: Thoughts on Riesman’s “The Search for Challenge”	6
MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Participant of Color From an Open-Label Trial	6
The Dao of Maslow: A New Direction for Mentorship	5
Madness: Reflections in a Different Key	5
There’s a Grief Loose in This House: A Tribute to Tom Greening	5
Maslow, Judaism, and Humanistic Psychology: In Memory of Ilene Serlin	5

The Importance of Community Partnerships in Nonprofit and Business Responsiveness to COVID-19; Success Stories From the Field	5
Integrative Psychotherapy With Physicians In the Trenches: Convergence of Cognitive, Existential, and Psychodynamic Processes	4
Mapping Existential Loneliness: A Scoping Review on Existential Loneliness/Isolation Conceptualizations and Operationalizations	4
The Shifting Contours of Nostalgia, Homelessness, and Homecoming: Vietnam War Veterans’ Identity	4
Reducing the Separation of the Old and the Young: Two Promising Developments	4
Tom and His Passion	3
Creative Maladjustment, Progressive Politics, and Humanistic Psychology	3
Kiyoshi Miki as a Precursor of Humanistic Psychology: Utopia and Eupsychia	3
Death Anxiety Among Urban Middle Class: The Predictive Role of Income and Symbolic Money Attitudes	3
Increases in Aesthetic Experience Following Ayahuasca Use: A Prospective, Naturalistic Study	3
Military Culture and Cultural Competence in Public Health: U.S. Veterans and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Uptake	3
Integration in Psychedelic-Assisted Treatments: Recurring Themes in Current Providers’ Definitions, Challenges, and Concerns	3
Coping Among Canadian Youth Living With Anxiety: A Phenomenological Photovoice Study	3
Communication Breakdown—Response to “The Social Separation of Old and Young: A Root of Ageism”	3
A Tribute to My Friend Donna Rockwell	3
Expanded Transference: A Humanities Perspective on the Generative Core of Ernest Becker’s Theory of Human Nature	3
Autistic Consumer Audit of UC Davis MIND Institute’s Mutant Angelman Mice and Their Translational Value Toward the Human Autistic Experience	3
My Dance With Donna	3
Autoethnographic Examination of Data-Driven, Community-Tailored COVID-19 Response in Brownsville, Texas	2
The Existential-Humanistic Institute: Formalizing Training for Hungering Professionals of Today and Tomorrow	2
Biological Wisdom From Vertical and Horizontal Perspectives in Maslow’s “Toward a Humanistic Biology”	2
Expectancies for Subjective and Antidepressant Effects in Psilocybin Users	2
Therapists’ Experiences of Self-Transcendence: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	2
Current U.S. Approaches to Studying Psychedelic Medicines Compared to Psychedelics Use Among Indigenous Groups: What Are We Missing?	2
Self-formulation in counselling psychology: The Power Threat Meaning Framework	2
Black Feminist Theory as an Approach to Therapeutic Growth and Healing	2
Tom Greening: Psychologist, Poet, and Peacemaker	2
Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone	2
Filipino Psychology Is a Transpersonal Psychology	2
Presence, Trust, and Empathy: Preferred Characteristics of Psychedelic Carers	2
Who Is Included in Maslow’s Good Society?	2
“The One Place Where I Don’t Feel Frustrated”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Art Students’ Experiences and Emotional Responses to the Flow State	2
Posttraumatic Growth in Women With a Long-Standing Experience of Involuntary Childlessness in the Czech Republic	2
They Might Be Giants: The Creative Interplay of Literature and Psychology	2
Book Review: The Roots of Jewish Consciousness: Parts 1 and 2	1
Introduction for Special Issue: “Humanistic Perspectives on Understanding and Responding to Extreme States”	1
I-It Versus I-Thou Science and Society: Introduction to Special Feature on Maslow’s (1969) “Toward a Humanistic Biology”	1
Fromm-Reichmann’s Wake-Up Call Long Ago on Loneliness	1
Sailing Away From the Pyramid: A Revised Visual Representation of Maslow’s Theory Z	1
From Agency to Responsibility: Gestalt Therapy Trainees’ Experience of Engaging in Personal Therapy	1
The Elements of Donna	1
Corrigendum to “A Focus Group Study of Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapy for Military Veterans Reintegrating Into Civilian Life”	1
Navigating Client Deaths in the Community Mental Health Center: A Humanistic Approach to Clinical Supervision	1
Addendum to “A Qualitative Exploration of Relational Ethical Challenges and Practices in Psychedelic Healing”	1
Chronic Shame: Emotional Navigation Through Segregation, Migration, and Ethnic Phobia	1
A Pedagogy for the White Nonpoor in the United States: Returning Stolen and Excess Wealth, Land, and Resources to the Common Good	1
Microdosing as a Response to the Meaning Crisis: A Qualitative Analysis	1
Riesman’s Path Between Scylla and Charybdis: Work Versus the “Private Utopia” of Play	1
Solitude Without Loneliness: Understanding Loneliness in Terms of Psychological Separation	1
Book Review: The Zyprexa Papers by Gottstein, J.	1

A Changing Consciousness Over the Life Journey	1
Revelatory Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: An Existential-Humanistic Approach	1
Multicultural Competence as a Common Factor in the Process and Outcome of Counseling	1
Posttraumatic Growth and Posttraumatic Mental Health Outcomes: A Call for Better Research	1
Introduction to the Special Feature on Lived Experiences	1
At Home in the World: Two Western Models of Mindfulness	1
Harm Reduction, Humanistic Psychology, and the CRPD	1
From Heroism Motivation to Civic Engagement: The Role of Self-Construals	1
Amor Fati, Mindful Coping, and Psychological Adjustment in Adults: A Test of a Mediation Model	1
Exploring Ilene Serlin’s Contributions to Humanistic Psychology and Her Role in Amplifying Women’s Voice	1
Depth Psychology in Action: The Corps of Depth Healers’ Vision for Collective Healing	1
Considerations on the Psychedelic Landscape	1
The Experience of LGBTQ+ Identity as Spiritual Identity	1
Amor Fati and the Negation of Life: Examining Existential Meaning in Life and Regret as Processes Involved in the Association Between One’s Love of Fate and Suicidal Ideation	1
I Made Fire! I—Made—Fire! A Response to “Loneliness” by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann	1
The Effectiveness of Transactional Analysis Treatments and Their Predictors: A Systematic Literature Review and Explorative Meta-Analysis	1
Book Review: A wild and sacred call: Nature-psyche-spirit	1
Erratum to “Readdressing Spiritual Growth: What Can We Learn From Childhood Education?”	1
Honoring Donna Rockwell	1
For my teacher, Donna Rockwell	1
An Educational Experience to Address Age Segregation in the Contemporary United States	1
Tom Greening—The Incomparable (Tribute Through Tears)	1
Donna Rockwell and Love	1
Art for Humanizing Mental Illness When Teaching Diagnosis	1
Integrating Spiritual Emergency Through Visionary Art Therapy: A Jungian Autoethnography of Psychospiritual Trauma Healing to Benefit the Collective	1
Exploring the Experience of Existential Anxiety During the COVID-19 Isolation Period in a Small Sample of Young Kosovar Adults	1