Our triumphant claim at age 50 is that we have endured. The halcyon days of JHP in its infancy in the early 1960s, despite the vicissitudes that have assailed it, have given way to an established, independent journal with staying power. Interviews with 75 living exponents of humanistic psychology today, however, suggest that, while everyone interviewed somewhere found a niche, that niche will not be inherited by their students, the course of whose own careers have randomly forced them back into the mainstream of managed care, insurance reimbursement, problems of licensure, evidence based methods, the hegemony of cognitive-behavioral interventions, and attempts on all fronts to regulate Humanistic psychology out of the marketplace, despite widespread public interest in more humane forms of treatment. A step toward remedying this situation is proposed in the form of a return to our founders’ emphasis on a person-centered science, instead of an impersonal, object-centered one that now prevails, and attention to the transformation of psychology that could emerge out of the humanistic implications of the current revolution in the neurosciences, changes that will surely be chronicled in future issues of JHP.
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