OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Humanistic Psychology is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Ubuntu Philosophy as a Humanistic–Existential Framework for the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic	37
From Climate Anxiety to Climate Action: An Existential Perspective on Climate Change Concerns Within Psychotherapy	36
Resilient Leadership: A Phenomenological Exploration Into How Black Women in Higher Education Leadership Navigate Cultural Adversity	29
Unsettled Belongings: Chinese Immigrants’ Mental Health Vulnerability as a Symptom of International Politics in the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Participant Reports of Mindfulness, Posttraumatic Growth, and Social Connectedness in Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis	16
A Qualitative Exploration of Relational Ethical Challenges and Practices in Psychedelic Healing	14
Classic Psychedelic Use and Mechanisms of Mental Health: Exploring the Mediating Roles of Spirituality and Emotion Processing on Symptoms of Anxiety, Depressed Mood, and Disordered Eating in a Communi	13
Trump, the Coronavirus Pandemic, Asian American Xenophobia, and Humanistic Psychology	13
The Taxonomy of Empathy: A Meta-definition and the Nine Dimensions of the Empathic System	13
Integration in Psychedelic-Assisted Treatments: Recurring Themes in Current Providers’ Definitions, Challenges, and Concerns	13
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Practices and Human Caring Science: Toward a Care-Informed Model of Treatment	13
Presence, Trust, and Empathy: Preferred Characteristics of Psychedelic Carers	12
Scaling Up: Multisite Open-Label Clinical Trials of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Severe Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	11
Foundations for an Arab/MENA Psychology	11
Why We Suffer? Existential Challenges of Patients With Chronic Illness: A Kierkegaardian Inspired Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	9
Ternary Taiji Models of the Traditional Chinese Self: Centered on Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Cultures	9
Microdosing as a Response to the Meaning Crisis: A Qualitative Analysis	8
A Systematic Review of Team Formulations in Multidisciplinary Teams: Staff Views and Opinions	8
“Meeting the Medicine Halfway”: Ayahuasca Ceremony Leaders’ Perspectives on Preparation and Integration Practices for Participants	7
Eupsychian Versus Authoritarian Leadership: Existential–Humanistic Underpinnings and Empirical Support	7
Toward an Abolitionist Practice of Psychology: Reimagining Psychology’s Relationship With the Criminal Justice System	7
Humanistic and Positive Psychologies: The Continuing Narrative After Two Decades	7
Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy	6
Existential Meaninglessness Scale: Scale Development and Psychometric Properties	6
The Necessity of an Emic Paradigm in Psychology	6

The Relationship Between Psychedelic Use, Mystical Experiences, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors	6
Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone	6
Searching and Making Meaning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of African Immigrants in the United States	6
Toward an Expanded Taxonomy of Happiness: A Conceptual Analysis of 16 Distinct Forms of Mental Wellbeing	6
A Qualitative Study of Intention and Impact of Ayahuasca Use by Westerners	5
A 15-Year Progress Report on the Presence of Humanistic/Existential Psychology Principles in Mental Health Outcome Measurement: Thematic Discourse and Summative Content Analyses	5
Four Principles for Cultivating Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Summary Reflections on Innovative Contributions	5
From Heroism Motivation to Civic Engagement: The Role of Self-Construals	5
Military Culture and Cultural Competence in Public Health: U.S. Veterans and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Uptake	4
Mapping Existential Loneliness: A Scoping Review on Existential Loneliness/Isolation Conceptualizations and Operationalizations	4
Toward a Utopian Society: From Disconnection and Disorder to Empathy and Harmony	4
MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Participant of Color From an Open-Label Trial	4
Tales From the Dark Side: The Dark Tetrad of Personality, Supernatural, and Scientific Belief	4
Building an Effective and Empowered Community Advisory Board for Veterans	4
Community Health Workers in Time of Crisis: A COVID-19 Case Study	4
Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Long Overdue Recognition and Further Articulations	4
The Power of Art to Cope With Trauma: Psychosocial Intervention After the Tsunami in Japan	4
Existential–Humanistic and Relational Psychotherapy During COVID-19 With Patients With Preexisting Medical Conditions	4
Advancing Research Within Asian American Psychology Using Asian Critical Race Theory and an Asian Americanist Perspective	4
Autonomy, Meaning, and the Mediating Role of Symbolic Immortality	4
Positive Psychology Applied to the Workplace: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	4
The Impact of Moral Injury and Disclosure of Military Experiences on Veterans	3
The Association Between Racial Privilege and Ethnocultural Empathy	3
Examining Nietzsche’s Epigram: Having a Why Helps You Bear Almost Any How?	3
The Contribution of a Music and Arts Rehabilitation Program to the Creative Identity, Well-Being, and Community Integration of People With Mental Health Conditions	3
Participatory Sense-Making in Therapeutic Interventions	3
Psychedelics as a Training Experience for Psychedelic Therapists: Drawing on History to Inform Current Practice	3
Promoting New Psychological Understandings by Use of an Indigenous American Psychological Paradigm	3
Lay Meanings and Associated Experiences of Nonattachment (Anasakti): A Study From India	3
Social justice in counseling psychology practice: Actualizing the ethics of compassion	3
Expressions of Queer Intimacy: BDSM and Kink as Means of Self-Actualization	3
Laing Versus Szasz: Antagonists, Kindred Spirits, or a Misconstrued Rivalry?	3
Toward a Humanistic Future: Sixty Years of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology	3
Developing the Foundations for a Learning-Based Humanistic Therapy	3
Stress-Related Growth Associated With Acculturation and Mental Health Among International Students	3
Meaning-Making Predicts Forgiveness as an Indicator of Posttraumatic Growth with a Stronger Effect for Natural Disasters	3
The Effectiveness of Transactional Analysis Treatments and Their Predictors: A Systematic Literature Review and Explorative Meta-Analysis	2
Going “Beyond the Surface” in an App-Based Group: A Heuristic Inquiry	2
The Dao of Maslow: A New Direction for Mentorship	2
Sexual Disembodiment: Sexual Energy, Trauma, and the Body	2
Educating for Eupsychia: Maslow’s Unfinished Agenda and Aldous Huxley’s Role in Its Advancement	2
A Pedagogy for the White Nonpoor in the United States: Returning Stolen and Excess Wealth, Land, and Resources to the Common Good	2
Dosing and Therapeutic Conduct in Administration Sessions in Substance-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Systematized Review	2
Multicultural Competence as a Common Factor in the Process and Outcome of Counseling	2
To be Scared or Scared to be: Existential Anxiety as a Mediator between Meaning Experience and Depression	2
Equity, Public Health Messaging, and Traditional Māori Knowledge: The Te Ranga Tupua COVID-19 Response	2
Autoethnographic Examination of Data-Driven, Community-Tailored COVID-19 Response in Brownsville, Texas	2
Change in Life Attitudes During Inpatient Psychosomatic Treatment	2
Mental Health Caregiver’s Experiences From the Perspective of the Power Threat Meaning Framework	2
A Death and Dying Class Benefits Life and Living: Evidence From a Nonrandomized Controlled Study	2

Reassessing Existential Constructs and Subjectivity: Freedom and Authenticity in Neoliberalism	2
Coping Strategies and Health-Seeking Behavior of Women With Infertility at Zamfara	2
Causal Attribution and Emotion Expression of Suffering Among Southeast Asian Indigenous Peoples: A Systematic Review Study	2