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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Canonical Narratives as a Tool of Analysis in Psychology	39
Abraham Maslow as a Jewish Prophet	20
Amor Fati, Mindful Coping, and Psychological Adjustment in Adults: A Test of a Mediation Model	19
Inequality for All and Activating Empowerment Amid Economic Despair	18
Husserl and Stoicism: The Theory of Meaning as a Bridge to Mindfulness	16
A Jungian Analysis of the Chinese Kitchen God Image	15
Revelatory Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders: An Existential-Humanistic Approach	15
The Mobile Thriving Respite With and for the Street Community	13
Back to Natural and the Intergenerational Healing of the Natural Black Hair Movement	13
Filmic Therapeutic Encounters and Resistance: Silence, Forgetting, and Guilt in the Face of Historical Violence	13
Eupsychian Management: Spirit of the Good in Humanity and Society	11
My Dance With Donna	10
Presence, Trust, and Empathy: Preferred Characteristics of Psychedelic Carers	10
Book Review: Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World, by Kirk J. Schneider	9
Therapists’ Experiences of Self-Transcendence: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	9
Expressions of Queer Intimacy: BDSM and Kink as Means of Self-Actualization	9
I Am Not a Hero: How Heroic Action Divorces the Hero from the Political Community	9
Toward a Meta-Psychological Methodology: Reflections on Maslow and the Role of Experiencing and Perspective in Scientific Methods	8
“It’s Allowed Me to Be a Lot Kinder to Myself”: Exploration of the Self-Transformative Properties of Solitude During COVID-19 Lockdowns	8
Exploring the Experience of Existential Anxiety During the COVID-19 Isolation Period in a Small Sample of Young Kosovar Adults	7
Introduction to the Special Issue on Phenomenology and Mindfulness	7
New Light on Maslow’s Discovery of Daoism: A Reaction Paper	7
Riesman’s Path Between Scylla and Charybdis: Work Versus the “Private Utopia” of Play	6
The Time for Humanistic Psychology Is Now	6
Depth Psychology in Action: The Corps of Depth Healers’ Vision for Collective Healing	6

They Might Be Giants: The Creative Interplay of Literature and Psychology	6
Meaning-Making Predicts Forgiveness as an Indicator of Posttraumatic Growth with a Stronger Effect for Natural Disasters	5
Autonomy Support for Gender Expression and Managing Existential Concerns: An Initial Study Among Transgender Individuals	5
Terror Management: The Effects of Mortality Salience on Desire for Money Among Singaporeans	5
Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone	5
The Scrooge Group Therapy: A Meaning-Centered Group Therapy for Outpatients Following CBT	5
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure as Ontological Shock? Exploring Diversity Among Social Media Responses to a Congressional UAP Hearing	5
Existential Meaninglessness Scale: Scale Development and Psychometric Properties	5
Mental Health and the Search for Challenge	5
Psychology, Values, and the Meaning of Life: Bridging the Philosophy–Psychology Divide	4
Social Withdrawal in Adolescence: Developmental and Humanistic Perspectives	4
Introduction to the Special Issue on Eupsychia	4
Methodological Implications of the Phenomenon of Mispresence	4
Autoethnographic Examination of Data-Driven, Community-Tailored COVID-19 Response in Brownsville, Texas	4
Active Contemporary Citizenship as a Research Mode	4
Causal Attribution and Emotion Expression of Suffering Among Southeast Asian Indigenous Peoples: A Systematic Review Study	4
Humanistic and Positive Psychologies: The Continuing Narrative After Two Decades	4
Loneliness in the Context of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann’s Life	3
Perceptions and Experiences of Antipsychotic Use and Discontinuation Among Young Adults Who Completed a First-Episode Psychosis Program	3
“The One Place Where I Don’t Feel Frustrated”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Art Students’ Experiences and Emotional Responses to the Flow State	3
Clocks, Mirrors, Plants: Processes of Gender Shifts Among Adults During COVID-19	3
Posttraumatic Growth in Women With a Long-Standing Experience of Involuntary Childlessness in the Czech Republic	3
Equity, Public Health Messaging, and Traditional Māori Knowledge: The Te Ranga Tupua COVID-19 Response	3
Effects of Mortality Salience on Racism in Singapore	3
The Existential-Humanistic Institute: Formalizing Training for Hungering Professionals of Today and Tomorrow	3
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
A Phenomenological Investigation of the Multi-Componential Process of State Curiosity of Senior-Level Professionals	2
Toward an Expanded Taxonomy of Happiness: A Conceptual Analysis of 16 Distinct Forms of Mental Wellbeing	2
Art for Humanizing Mental Illness When Teaching Diagnosis	2
Self-formulation in counselling psychology: The Power Threat Meaning Framework	2
Humanistic Psychology, Daoism, and TongXin	2
Educating for Eupsychia: Maslow’s Unfinished Agenda and Aldous Huxley’s Role in Its Advancement	2
Fathers’ Lived-Experience of Childbirth: A Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Inquiry	2
Chronic Shame: Emotional Navigation Through Segregation, Migration, and Ethnic Phobia	2
Book Review: The Healing Body: Creative Responses to Illness, Aging, and Affliction	2
The Structure of Selfhood and Affection in Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Praxis of Mindfulness	2
Addendum to “A Qualitative Exploration of Relational Ethical Challenges and Practices in Psychedelic Healing”	2
Contemporary Film and the Empathy Controversy: Part 2	2
Development and Validation of Responses to Personal Mortality Measure	2
Differentiating Third-Wave Cognitive Mindfulness From Meditative Mindfulness Using a Gurdjieffian Phenomenology of Awareness	2
Cat’s Cradle and the Threads of Maslow’s Humanistic Meditation	2
Coping Strategies and Health-Seeking Behavior of Women With Infertility at Zamfara	2
Existential Isolation and Suicide Ideation Among Chinese College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	1
Examining Attitudes to Psilocybin: Should Candidates for Medical Psilocybin be Required to Pass a Contextual Suitability Test?	1
Honoring Donna Rockwell	1
A 15-Year Progress Report on the Presence of Humanistic/Existential Psychology Principles in Mental Health Outcome Measurement: Thematic Discourse and Summative Content Analyses	1
Introduction for Special Issue: “Humanistic Perspectives on Understanding and Responding to Extreme States”	1
The Heart and Leadership of The Donna Rockwell	1
A Systematic Review of Team Formulations in Multidisciplinary Teams: Staff Views and Opinions	1

The Relationship Between Psychedelic Use, Mystical Experiences, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors	1
From Heroism Motivation to Civic Engagement: The Role of Self-Construals	1
Measuring an Ongoing State of Wakefulness: The Development and Validation of the Inventory of Secular/Spiritual Wakefulness (WAKE)	1
No Woman, No Cry: A Tribute to Dr. Donna Rockwell	1
Effects of a Brief Spiritual Intervention on Perceived Stress During COVID-19	1
Dhikr as Mindfulness: Meditative Remembrance in Sufism	1
Being Spiritual but Not Religious (SBNR): Testing the Tripartite Meaning in Life Model With Beliefs in Free Will and Determinism as Meaning Frameworks	1
The Search for Challenge: A Reflection	1
Enriching Lives Through Contributions to Society: Thoughts on Riesman’s “The Search for Challenge”	1
Effects of Mortality Salience and Religion on Aggression	1
Who Is Included in Maslow’s Good Society?	1
Self-Actualization and the Integration of Psychedelic Experience: The Mediating Role of Perceived Benefits to Narrative Self-Functioning	1
The Constitution of Death Valence as a Key to Intervene in Social Discrimination	1
A Critique of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers as Educators	1
Existential Concerns Arising From a Threat to the Belief in a Just World: A Mixed-Methods Study	1
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Practices and Human Caring Science: Toward a Care-Informed Model of Treatment	1
Enhancing Self-Affirmation to Combat Obsessive-Compulsive Thoughts	1
Radical Humanism and Re-Mything: Honoring Experiencers of Extreme States as the Carriers of Wisdom for Consciousness Evolution and Collective Transformation	1
Expectancies for Subjective and Antidepressant Effects in Psilocybin Users	1
There’s a Grief Loose in This House: A Tribute to Tom Greening	1
In These Last Days: The Extraordinary Uniqueness of Our Time	1
Tom Greening: Psychologist, Poet, and Peacemaker	1
Medical School Civic Engagement During COVID-19: Activating Institutions for Equitable Community Response	1
Donna Rockwell and Love	1
Participant Reports of Mindfulness, Posttraumatic Growth, and Social Connectedness in Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis	1
Biological Wisdom From Vertical and Horizontal Perspectives in Maslow’s “Toward a Humanistic Biology”	1
Black Feminist Theory as an Approach to Therapeutic Growth and Healing	1
MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Participant of Color From an Open-Label Trial	1
The Enemy Within	1
Eupsychian Management in the Age of the Knowledge Worker	1
Loneliness and Touch	1
Abraham Maslow, Utopian Realist	1