OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Humanistic Psychology is 3. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic	189
Work and Unemployment in the Time of COVID-19: The Existential Experience of Loss and Fear	111
Existential Givens in the COVID-19 Crisis	31
From Climate Anxiety to Climate Action: An Existential Perspective on Climate Change Concerns Within Psychotherapy	29
When Perceptions Are Fragile But Also Enduring: An Asian American Reflection on COVID-19	28
Ubuntu Philosophy as a Humanistic–Existential Framework for the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic	27
Psychology and Surveillance Capitalism: The Risk of Pushing Mental Health Apps During the COVID-19 Pandemic	26
Singing Away the Social Distancing Blues: Art Therapy in a Time of Coronavirus	26
Resilient Leadership: A Phenomenological Exploration Into How Black Women in Higher Education Leadership Navigate Cultural Adversity	23
Reconceptualizing Social Distancing: Teletherapy and Social Inequality During the COVID-19 and Loneliness Pandemics	20
Purpose as a Powerful Resource in the Time of COVID-19	19
Unsettled Belongings: Chinese Immigrants’ Mental Health Vulnerability as a Symptom of International Politics in the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Sick and Shut In: Incarceration During a Public Health Crisis	14
Trump, the Coronavirus Pandemic, Asian American Xenophobia, and Humanistic Psychology	13
Participant Reports of Mindfulness, Posttraumatic Growth, and Social Connectedness in Psilocybin-Assisted Group Therapy: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis	13
The Taxonomy of Empathy: A Meta-definition and the Nine Dimensions of the Empathic System	12
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	12
Existential–Humanistic Therapy and Disaster Response: Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Resilience and Meaning-Making Amid the COVID-19 Epidemic in China	11
Presence, Trust, and Empathy: Preferred Characteristics of Psychedelic Carers	10
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Practices and Human Caring Science: Toward a Care-Informed Model of Treatment	10
Transformative Life Experience as a Glimpse Into Potentiality	9
Living Through COVID-19: A Perspective From Hong Kong	9
Scaling Up: Multisite Open-Label Clinical Trials of MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Severe Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	9
Authenticity Is Correlated With Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence	8

A Qualitative Exploration of Relational Ethical Challenges and Practices in Psychedelic Healing	8
Ternary Taiji Models of the Traditional Chinese Self: Centered on Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist Cultures	8
Foundations for an Arab/MENA Psychology	7
Why We Suffer? Existential Challenges of Patients With Chronic Illness: A Kierkegaardian Inspired Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	7
Beliefs in Free Will Versus Determinism: Search for Meaning Mediates the Life Scheme–Depressive Symptom Link	7
Veterans Health and Well-Being—Collaborative Research Approaches: Toward Veteran Community Engagement	7
Humanistic and Positive Psychologies: The Continuing Narrative After Two Decades	7
Anomalous Psychedelic Experiences: At the Neurochemical Juncture of the Humanistic and Parapsychological	7
Authentic Empathy: A Cultural Basis for the Development of Empathy in Children	7
Toward an Abolitionist Practice of Psychology: Reimagining Psychology’s Relationship With the Criminal Justice System	6
Searching and Making Meaning of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives of African Immigrants in the United States	6
The Humanistic Revolution in Psychology: Its Inaugural Vision	6
The Emergence of Meaning From Meaningful Moments in Life	6
Eupsychian Versus Authoritarian Leadership: Existential–Humanistic Underpinnings and Empirical Support	6
Microdosing as a Response to the Meaning Crisis: A Qualitative Analysis	6
Integration in Psychedelic-Assisted Treatments: Recurring Themes in Current Providers’ Definitions, Challenges, and Concerns	6
A Systematic Review of Team Formulations in Multidisciplinary Teams: Staff Views and Opinions	6
We’re All Going Crazy Now: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Can Promote More Compassionate Clinical Perspectives	5
A Qualitative Study of Intention and Impact of Ayahuasca Use by Westerners	5
“Meeting the Medicine Halfway”: Ayahuasca Ceremony Leaders’ Perspectives on Preparation and Integration Practices for Participants	5
The Influence of Compassion Meditation on the Psychotherapist’s Empathy and Clinical Practice: A Phenomenological Analysis	5
COVID-19’s Fierce Subversion of Our Supposed Separateness: Cultivating Life With and For All Others	5
Building an Effective and Empowered Community Advisory Board for Veterans	4
An Application of the Three-Step Test-Interview (TSTI) in the Validation of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	4
Existential Meaninglessness Scale: Scale Development and Psychometric Properties	4
Military Culture and Cultural Competence in Public Health: U.S. Veterans and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Uptake	4
Developing the Foundations for a Learning-Based Humanistic Therapy	4
The Experience of the Authentic Self: A Cooperative Inquiry	4
Flow, Liminality, and Eudaimonia: Pagan Ritual Practice as a Gateway to a Life With Meaning	4
Existential–Humanistic and Relational Psychotherapy During COVID-19 With Patients With Preexisting Medical Conditions	4
The Relationship Between Psychedelic Use, Mystical Experiences, and Pro-Environmental Behaviors	4
Impairing Social Connectedness: The Dangers of Treating Grief With Naltrexone	4
The Necessity of an Emic Paradigm in Psychology	3
The Association Between Racial Privilege and Ethnocultural Empathy	3
Toward a Utopian Society: From Disconnection and Disorder to Empathy and Harmony	3
Social justice in counseling psychology practice: Actualizing the ethics of compassion	3
Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy	3
A 15-Year Progress Report on the Presence of Humanistic/Existential Psychology Principles in Mental Health Outcome Measurement: Thematic Discourse and Summative Content Analyses	3
Participatory Sense-Making in Therapeutic Interventions	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
Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Long Overdue Recognition and Further Articulations	3
MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Participant of Color From an Open-Label Trial	3
Positive Psychology Applied to the Workplace: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis	3
Existentialism and Higher Education: A Renewed Intersection in Well-Being	3
The Power of Art to Cope With Trauma: Psychosocial Intervention After the Tsunami in Japan	3
Four Principles for Cultivating Alternate Cultural Paradigms in Psychology: Summary Reflections on Innovative Contributions	3
Lay Meanings and Associated Experiences of Nonattachment (Anasakti): A Study From India	3
Autonomy, Meaning, and the Mediating Role of Symbolic Immortality	3

In This Moment, We Are All Dr. Rieux: COVID-19, Existential Anxiety, and the Absurd Hero	3
The Coronavirus in Context: Guidance for Psychotherapists During a Pandemic	3
Meaning-Making Predicts Forgiveness as an Indicator of Posttraumatic Growth with a Stronger Effect for Natural Disasters	3
Travel as a Catalyst of Peak Experiences Among Young Chinese Adults	3