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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“It’s Allowed Me to Be a Lot Kinder to Myself”: Exploration of the Self-Transformative Properties of Solitude During COVID-19 Lockdowns	47
Inequality for All and Activating Empowerment Amid Economic Despair	21
Clocks, Mirrors, Plants: Processes of Gender Shifts Among Adults During COVID-19	20
New Light on Maslow’s Discovery of Daoism: A Reaction Paper	19
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eupsychia	19
The Mobile Thriving Respite With and for the Street Community	15
No Woman, No Cry: A Tribute to Dr. Donna Rockwell	13
Canonical Narratives as a Tool of Analysis in Psychology	13
Loneliness in the Context of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s Life	13
Equity, Public Health Messaging, and Traditional Māori Knowledge: The Te Ranga Tupua COVID-19 Response	11
Existential Concerns Arising From a Threat to the Belief in a Just World: A Mixed-Methods Study	11
Effects of a Brief Spiritual Intervention on Perceived Stress During COVID-19	10
Dhikr as Mindfulness: Meditative Remembrance in Sufism	10
Cat’s Cradle and the Threads of Maslow’s Humanistic Meditation	9
A Systematic Review of Team Formulations in Multidisciplinary Teams: Staff Views and Opinions	9
A 15-Year Progress Report on the Presence of Humanistic/Existential Psychology Principles in Mental Health Outcome Measurement: Thematic Discourse and Summative Content Analyses	9
A Grounded Theory of the Process of Healing From Opioid Addiction	8
Corrigendum to “Autistic Consumer Audit of UC Davis MIND Institute’s Mutant Angelman Mice and Their Translational Value Toward the Human Autistic Experience”	8
There’s a Grief Loose in This House: A Tribute to Tom Greening	7
And the Children Shall Lead: Abraham Maslow and the Adventure of Science	7
Enriching Lives Through Contributions to Society: Thoughts on Riesman’s “The Search for Challenge”	7
The Dao of Maslow: A New Direction for Mentorship	6
Integrative Psychotherapy With Physicians In the Trenches: Convergence of Cognitive, Existential, and Psychodynamic Processes	6
Effects of Mortality Salience and Religion on Aggression	6
Social justice in counseling psychology practice: Actualizing the ethics of compassion	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 Importance of Community Partnerships in Nonprofit and Business Responsiveness to COVID-19; Success Stories From the Field	5
Integration in Psychedelic-Assisted Treatments: Recurring Themes in Current Providers’ Definitions, Challenges, and Concerns	5
Expanded Transference: A Humanities Perspective on the Generative Core of Ernest Becker’s Theory of Human Nature	5
Unseen Women in Psychedelic History	5
Military Culture and Cultural Competence in Public Health: U.S. Veterans and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Uptake	5
Mapping Existential Loneliness: A Scoping Review on Existential Loneliness/Isolation Conceptualizations and Operationalizations	5
The Shifting Contours of Nostalgia, Homelessness, and Homecoming: Vietnam War Veterans’ Identity	5
Examining Nietzsche’s Epigram: Having a Why Helps You Bear Almost Any How?	5
A Tribute to My Friend Donna Rockwell	5
Mental Health Caregiver’s Experiences From the Perspective of the Power Threat Meaning Framework	5
Promoting New Psychological Understandings by Use of an Indigenous American Psychological Paradigm	4
Death Anxiety Among Urban Middle Class: The Predictive Role of Income and Symbolic Money Attitudes	4
Coping Among Canadian Youth Living With Anxiety: A Phenomenological Photovoice Study	4
Laing Versus Szasz: Antagonists, Kindred Spirits, or a Misconstrued Rivalry?	4
Creative Maladjustment, Progressive Politics, and Humanistic Psychology	4
Kiyoshi Miki as a Precursor of Humanistic Psychology: Utopia and Eupsychia	4
Increases in Aesthetic Experience Following Ayahuasca Use: A Prospective, Naturalistic Study	4
Autistic Consumer Audit of UC Davis MIND Institute’s Mutant Angelman Mice and Their Translational Value Toward the Human Autistic Experience	4
Current U.S. Approaches to Studying Psychedelic Medicines Compared to Psychedelics Use Among Indigenous Groups: What Are We Missing?	3
Filipino Psychology Is a Transpersonal Psychology	3
Active Contemporary Citizenship as a Research Mode	3
My Dance With Donna	3
Posttraumatic Growth in Women With a Long-Standing Experience of Involuntary Childlessness in the Czech Republic	3
Tom and His Passion	3
They Might Be Giants: The Creative Interplay of Literature and Psychology	2
Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone	2
The Existential-Humanistic Institute: Formalizing Training for Hungering Professionals of Today and Tomorrow	2
Expectancies for Subjective and Antidepressant Effects in Psilocybin Users	2
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	2
The Experience of LGBTQ+ Identity as Spiritual Identity	2
Who Is Included in Maslow’s Good Society?	2
Therapists’ Experiences of Self-Transcendence: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	2
Autoethnographic Examination of Data-Driven, Community-Tailored COVID-19 Response in Brownsville, Texas	2
Self-formulation in counselling psychology: The Power Threat Meaning Framework	2
Solitude Without Loneliness: Understanding Loneliness in Terms of Psychological Separation	2
For my teacher, Donna Rockwell	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
Black Feminist Theory as an Approach to Therapeutic Growth and Healing	2
Presence, Trust, and Empathy: Preferred Characteristics of Psychedelic Carers	2
Biological Wisdom From Vertical and Horizontal Perspectives in Maslow’s “Toward a Humanistic Biology”	2
Introduction for Special Issue: “Humanistic Perspectives on Understanding and Responding to Extreme States”	2
Tom Greening: Psychologist, Poet, and Peacemaker	2
Book Review: The Roots of Jewish Consciousness: Parts 1 and 2	2
Exploring the Experience of Existential Anxiety During the COVID-19 Isolation Period in a Small Sample of Young Kosovar Adults	1
The Elements of Donna	1
At Home in the World: Two Western Models of Mindfulness	1
Meaning-Making View of Extreme States	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

Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Long Overdue Recognition and Further Articulations	1
Harm Reduction, Humanistic Psychology, and the CRPD	1
Stretching the Peace: The Role of Kundalini Yoga in the Lives of Young People in Alexandra, South Africa	1
Corrigendum to “A Focus Group Study of Equine-Assisted Activities and Therapy for Military Veterans Reintegrating Into Civilian Life”	1
Considerations on the Psychedelic Landscape	1
Chronic Shame: Emotional Navigation Through Segregation, Migration, and Ethnic Phobia	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
Art for Humanizing Mental Illness When Teaching Diagnosis	1
Introduction to the Special Feature on Lived Experiences	1
Depth Psychology in Action: The Corps of Depth Healers’ Vision for Collective Healing	1
Donna Rockwell and Love	1
The Effectiveness of Transactional Analysis Treatments and Their Predictors: A Systematic Literature Review and Explorative Meta-Analysis	1
Fromm-Reichmann’s Wake-Up Call Long Ago on Loneliness	1
From Agency to Responsibility: Gestalt Therapy Trainees’ Experience of Engaging in Personal Therapy	1
Corrigendum to “Creative Improvisation Through Literature”	1
Do Pandemics Trigger Death Thoughts?	1
Multicultural Competence as a Common Factor in the Process and Outcome of Counseling	1
Honoring Donna Rockwell	1
Navigating Client Deaths in the Community Mental Health Center: A Humanistic Approach to Clinical Supervision	1
Coping Strategies and Health-Seeking Behavior of Women With Infertility at Zamfara	1
Tom Greening—The Incomparable (Tribute Through Tears)	1
Addendum to “A Qualitative Exploration of Relational Ethical Challenges and Practices in Psychedelic Healing”	1
Sailing Away From the Pyramid: A Revised Visual Representation of Maslow’s Theory Z	1
Revelatory Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: An Existential-Humanistic Approach	1
Amor Fati, Mindful Coping, and Psychological Adjustment in Adults: A Test of a Mediation Model	1
Book Review: The Zyprexa Papers by Gottstein, J.	1
I-It Versus I-Thou Science and Society: Introduction to Special Feature on Maslow’s (1969) “Toward a Humanistic Biology”	1
Riesman’s Path Between Scylla and Charybdis: Work Versus the “Private Utopia” of Play	1
Erratum to “Readdressing Spiritual Growth: What Can We Learn From Childhood Education?”	1
Mindfulness Practice in Recovery From Bipolar Disorder: Qualitative Study Results and Humanistic Implications	1
Introduction by the Editor: A Most Ingenious Paradox	1
A Changing Consciousness Over the Life Journey	1
A New Quarter Century of Humanistic Scholarship	1
I Made Fire! I—Made—Fire! A Response to “Loneliness” by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann	1
From Heroism Motivation to Civic Engagement: The Role of Self-Construals	1
Book Review: A wild and sacred call: Nature-psyche-spirit	1