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The World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (WAPP) is the global umbrella organization for positive psychotherapy. Established in 1996 as the International Center for Positive Psychotherapy, WAPP comprises individual members, national associations, training institutes, centers, and representative offices at national and ...
Internationally, positive psychotherapy is represented by the World Association of Positive Psychotherapy. [4] Swiss psychiatrist G. Benedetti explained in 1979: "His model is a notable synthesis of psychodynamic and behavior-therapeutic elements, making an essential contribution to a unified relationship within psychotherapy".
Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health [17] Association for College Psychiatry [18] Association for Contextual Behavioral Science [19] Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness; Association for Psychological Science; Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; Association for Transpersonal Psychology; Association ...
The main objectives of the association are the promotion of psychotherapy on all continents (based on the principles in the Strasbourg Declaration on Psychotherapy in 1990), to improve the conditions of patients, to cooperate with national and international organizations to improve crisis management and peacekeeping, and to unify world training standards.
The World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP) is an organisation dedicated to promoting the development of psychoanalysis across the world. It follows the teaching of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan , and was launched at the initiative of his student and son-in-law Jacques-Alain Miller in Buenos Aires on 3 January 1992.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC), with a Four-Year Program in Psychoanalysis, was founded in New York in 1986. It is a member institute of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. [36] [37] St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute [38] San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC) [39]
At the very end of the twentieth century a new approach in psychology gained popularity: positive psychology. Positive psychology, the study of optimal human functioning, is an attempt to respond to the systematic bias inherent in psychology's historical emphasis on mental illness rather than on mental wellness (Seligman, 2002), mainly by ...
Some founders of the humanistic school of thought were American psychologists Abraham Maslow, who formulated a hierarchy of human needs, and Carl Rogers, who created and developed client-centered therapy. Later, positive psychology opened up humanistic themes to scientific study. Positive psychology is the study of factors which contribute to ...