On a recent trip to Japan, I invited Shoji Muramoto, a longtime leader in Japanese humanistic psychology, to offer his view on the past, present, and future of this branch of psychological thought.

In psychological terms, perspective refers to the mental framework through which individuals view the world around them. It encompasses our beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions that shape how we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. A “time perspective” refers to an individual’s orientation or ...

Yogic and Buddhist meditation, as well as phenomenology, all aim to deepen conscious experience, but they differ ...