Humanistic-Existential Psychology started with Carl Rogers, Abe Maslow and Rollo May in the 1960s and led to a revolution in how we understand meaning as the central aspect of our lives. The key ideas are how we can grow as people and continue to self-actualize or become more fully developed. Existential psychology adds to this that we often greatly benefit from some of our 'troubled times'. So that happiness emerges out of unhappiness. Both of these call into question the 'medicalizing' of psyc …