Intrapsychic humanism

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "Intrapsychic humanism" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The examples and perspective in this article may not include all significant viewpoints. Please improve the article or discuss the issue. (March 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) An editor has performed a search and found that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Intrapsychic humanism" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (March 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Intrapsychic humanism is a comprehensive general psychology and philosophy of mind that provides a new understanding of what it is to be human. Intrapsychic humanism is a nonderivative depth psychology that provides a unified and comprehensive theory of child development, psychopathology, and psychological treatment.

The theory is based on discoveries about the centrality of the caregiving relationship in both child development and psychological treatment. It provides an approach to psychotherapy called inner humanism which helps individuals with emotional pain achieve unconflicted pleasurable inner well-being.

The theory of intrapsychic humanism also engenders an approach to parenting called "smart love" that offers the potential to raise children who can have a conflict free, pleasurable, self-regulated experience of inner well-being, even in a world of inescapable loss.