Humanistic psychology is often caricatured as having both aided and abetted the rise of modern narcissism. This charge is, however, a seriously misguided one as becomes evident through a closer reading of one of the movement's preeminent spokespersons—Carl Rogers. This article explores the ontological framework underlying Rogers' thought and in so doing demonstrates the important sense in which his writings have given psychological embodiment to the religious and ethical assumptions that have shaped the successive articulation of a peculiarly American spirituality.
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