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According to Wikipedia, Joseph Frank Rychlak was a psychologist well known for his work with theoretical and philosophical psychology. He developed a theoretical stance known as "Rigorous Humanism." This term refers to Rychlak's argument that psychology with ecological validity should be directed toward issues that are relevant to our lives.

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A philosophy of science for personality theory (1968) (287)
The psychology of rigorous humanism (1977) (237)
Introduction to personality and psychotherapy : a theory-construction approach (1973) (121)
Introduction to personality and psychotherapy (1973) (107)
Logical Learning Theory: A Human Teleology and its Empirical Support (1994) (78)
The psychology of rigorous humanism, 2nd ed. (1988) (72)
In defense of human consciousness (1997) (67)
Discovering free will and personal responsibility (1979) (67)
Logical learning theory: a teleological alternative in the field of personality (1986) (48)
A suggested principle of complementarity for psychology: In theory, not method. (1993) (48)
Curvilinearity between dream content and death anxiety and the relationship of death anxiety to repression-sensitization. (1971) (37)
Dialectic : humanistic rationale for behavior and development (1976) (35)
Artificial Intelligence and Human Reason: A Teleological Critique (1991) (33)
Logical learning theory: Propositions, corollaries, and research evidence. (1981) (31)
Psychotherapeutic processes. (1970) (31)
Reinforcement value: a suggested idiographic, intensity dimension of meaningfulness for the personality theorist. (1966) (27)
George Kelly and the Concept of Construction (1990) (26)
THE SIMILARITY, COMPATIBILITY, OR INCOMPATIBILITY OF NEEDS IN INTERPERSONAL SELECTION. (1965) (26)
Affective evaluation in the verbal learning styles of normals and abnormals. (1971) (23)
A psychotherapist's lessons from the philosophy of science. (2000) (22)
Personal Adjustment and the Free Recall of Materials with Affectively Positive or Negative Meaningfulness. (1974) (21)
A sociocultural theory of appropriate sexual role identification and level of personal adjustment. (1967) (21)
Time orientation in the positive and negative free phantasies of mildly abnormal versus normal high school males. (1973) (20)
The effects of anxiety, delay, and reinforcement on generalized expectancies. (1962) (19)
An expectancy interpretation of manifest anxiety. (1965) (18)
Personality Correlates of Sociometric Popularity in Elementary School Children (1962) (17)
The Human Image in Postmodern America (2003) (17)
Manifest anxiety as reflecting commitment to the psychological present at the expense of cognitive futurity. (1972) (16)
Role of affective assessment in modeling aggressive behavior. (1982) (16)
Affective evaluation, word quality, and the verbal learning styles of black versus white junior college females. (1973) (16)
The Nature and Challenge of Teleological Psychological Theory (1984) (15)
Personality Correlates of Leadership among First Level Managers (1963) (15)
Clinical psychology and the nature of evidence. (1959) (15)
Recalled dream themes and personality. (1960) (15)
Affective assessment, intelligence, social class, and racial learning style. (1975) (14)
Order Effects in the Affective Learning Styles of Overachievers and Underachievers. (1971) (14)
Personality development and psychopathology: A dynamic approach, 2nd ed. (1985) (13)
Agency: An overview. (2000) (13)
Can psychology be objective about free will (1983) (13)
The insanity defense and the question of human agency (1990) (12)
Newtonianism and the professional responsibility of psychologists: who speaks for humanity? (1984) (12)
The recognition and cognitive utilization of oppositionality (1989) (12)
Affective assessment in the learning of names by fifth- and sixth-grade children. (1973) (11)
ROLE-PLAY VALIDATION OF A SOCIOCULTURAL THEORY OF SYMBOLISM. (1964) (11)
Task-influence and the stability of generalized expectancies. (1958) (10)
The Heuristic Properties of Dialectical Oppositionality in Predication (1986) (10)
Lockean vs. Kantian theoretical models and the "cause" of therapeutic change. (1969) (10)
Affective assessment, self-concept, and the verbal learning styles of fifth-grade children. (1975) (10)
The idiographic relationship between association value and reinforcement value, and the nature of meaning (1968) (10)
Psychological science as a humanist views it. (1975) (10)
The Freud/Jung Letters edited by William McGuire (Princeton University Press-Bollingen Series XCIV; 650 pp.; $17.50) (1975) (9)
The application of an affective dimension of meaningfulness to personality-related verbal learning. (1973) (9)
UNHEALTHY CONTENT IN THE RORSCHACH RESPONSES OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS. (1965) (8)
The logic of consciousness (1986) (8)
Forced associations, symbolism, and Rorschach constructs. (1959) (8)
Relationship Theory: An Historical Development in Psychology Leading to a Teleological Image of Humanity (1984) (8)
Unification in Theory and Method: Possibilities and Impossibilities. (2005) (8)
Affection and Evaluation as Logical Processes of Meaningfulness Independent of Associative Frequency (1979) (8)
Formal Discipline Revisited: Affective Assessment and Nonspecific Transfer. (1974) (7)
Affective Assessment in the Recognition of Designs and Paintings by Elementary School Children. (1975) (7)
Freud's confrontation with the telic mind. (1981) (7)
Control and prediction and the clinician. (1964) (7)
Personality dimensions in recalled dream content. (1963) (7)
A one-year concurrent validity study of the Rorschach prognostic Rating Scale (1967) (7)
A Teleological Critique of Modern Cognitivism (1995) (6)
Testing a predicational model of cognition: Cueing predicate meanings in sentences and word triplets (1993) (6)
Socioeconomic status and the diagnostic significance of healthy and unhealthy group Rorschach content. (1973) (6)
How Boulder Biases Have Limited Possible Theoretical Contributions of Psychotherapy (1998) (6)
Is a Concept of “Self” Necessary in Psychological Theory, and if so Why? A Humanistic Perspective (1976) (6)
The heuristic power of oppositionality in an incidental-memory task : in support of the construing process (1991) (6)
The Missing Psychological Links of Artificial Intelligence: Predication and Opposition (1991) (6)
Role of Intelligence and Task Difficulty in the Affective Learning Styles of Children with High and Low Self-concepts. (1978) (5)
Electicism in Psychological Theorizing: Good and Bad (1985) (5)
Mental Health Experts on Trial: Free Will and Determinism in the Courtroom (1997) (5)
Affective Assessment and Dialectical Oppositionality in the Cognitive Processing of Social Descriptors (1984) (5)
A logical learning theory explanation of why personality scales predict behavior. (1981) (5)
The Role of Frequency and Affective Assessment in Associative Enrichment (1979) (5)
Some psychotherapeutic implications of logical phenomenology. (1982) (5)
Depth of Processing Versus Oppositional Context in Word Recall: A New Look at the Findings of "Hyde and Jenkins" as Viewed by "Craik and Lockhart" (1993) (5)
A Socio-Psychological Theory of Performance in Competitive Situations (1960) (5)
Evidence for a predication effect in deciding on the personal significance of abstract word meanings (1991) (5)
The Role of Affective Assessment in Associative Learning: From Designs and CVC Trigrams to Faces and Names. (1972) (5)
An enquiry into the hermeneutic-dialectic method of inquiry (1996) (5)
THE VALIDITY OF THE ROLE CONSTRUCT REPERTORY TEST AS A MEASURE OF SEXUAL IDENTIFICATION. (1965) (4)
A question posed by Skinner concerning human freedom, and an answer. (1973) (4)
An Example of the Use of the Incomplete Sentence Test in Applied Anthropological Research (1957) (4)
The motives to psychotherapy. (1965) (4)
4 – MORALITY IN A MEDIATING MECHANISM? A LOGICAL LEARNING THEORIST LOOKS AT SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM (1992) (4)
Affection as a separate dimension of meaningfulness (1981) (4)
The Stream of Consciousness: Implications for a Humanistic Psychological Theory (1978) (4)
Healthy, neutral, and unhealthy content in the Rorschach reponses of schizophrenic and normal adults. (1966) (4)
The Therapeutic Relationship: Inexperienced Therapists' Affective Preference and Empathic Communication (1986) (4)
Logical learning theory: Kuhnian anomaly or medievalism revisited? (1984) (4)
Unification in Psychology: My Way! Our Way! No Way! (1989) (4)
A nontelic teleology (1979) (4)
Rorschach content, personality, and popularity. (1960) (3)
In search and proof of human beings, not machines. (2005) (3)
Incentive Value: The Overlooked Dimension in Childhood Sharing (1985) (3)
Explaining Helping Relationships through Learning Theories and the Question of Human Agency. (1988) (3)
More on the meaning of transcendence. (1980) (3)
Empirical cross-validation of Hermann Rorschach's theory of perception. (1969) (3)
Free will is a viable, verifiable assumption: A reply to Garrett and Viney (1990) (3)
Symbolic interpretation of Rorschach content. (1961) (3)
Some theoretical and methodological questions concerning Harcum's proposed resolution of the free will issue (1991) (3)
Complementarity means freedom and equality for all. (1994) (3)
RORSCHACH CONTENT RESPONSES OF POPULAR AND UNPOPULAR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. (1964) (3)
Chapter 1 The Multiple Meanings of ‘Dialectic’ (1976) (2)
William James and the concept of free will. (1993) (2)
Causality and the Proper Image of Man in Scientific Psychology (1971) (2)
Empirical evidence of Aristotle’s concepts of predication and opposition. (1990) (2)
Predicational Versus Mediational Theorizing in Psychology (1988) (2)
The Concept of Telosponsivity: Answering an Unmet Need in Psychology (1987) (2)
The role of affective assessment in intelligence testing. (1978) (2)
Problems of Burdens and Bias: A Response to Bornstein (1991) (2)
The role of negation in implication versus inference (1996) (2)
Is free will a process or a content: Both? Neither? Are we free to affirm a position on this question? (1994) (2)
AMERICAN USAGE OF THE TERMS “EDUCABLE” vs. “TRAINABLE” MENTAL RETARDATES (1963) (2)
The Well-Spring of Human Teleology: From Emotion to Affective Assessment (1973) (2)
Note on a Method of Projective Phantasy Study Using Free Association (1965) (2)
Some conditions influencing the stability of generalized expectancies (1957) (2)
Trying to Influence Psychologists to Think Otherwise Isn't Easy (2005) (2)
Personality Factors in Self-and Peer-Evaluations of WISC Performance Intelligence Among Middle-Class Children (1970) (2)
The Heuristic Power of Oppositionality within and Between Paired-Associate Units (1994) (2)
Four kinds of “determinism” and free will: A response to Viney and Crosby (1994) (2)
Culture as shared predications: Evidence for a common denominator in human cognition (1990) (1)
Self-confidence, ability, and the interest-value of tasks. (1959) (1)
Decomposing Psychology's Compositional Problem. (1988) (1)
Escaping Religion: As Content, Yes; As Process, No (1997) (1)
Must Behavior be Mechanistic? Modeling Nonmachines (1996) (1)
Behavior as telosponsivity rather than responsivity (1993) (1)
Comments on “The Self as the Person” (1976) (1)
Parental attitudes of sanction in middle-class adolescent male delinquency. (1968) (1)
Sorting out theory from method and vice versa (1983) (1)
A Life-Theme Method for Scoring of Interviews in the Longitudinal Study of Young Business Managers (1967) (1)
A sociocultural content interpretation of Rorschach's experience balance. (1966) (1)
Listening or Not Listening to the Voices of Experience. (1983) (1)
Assessment of personality by word association to homonyms. (1966) (1)
Skinnerian Tempest in a Teapot Dialogue. (1969) (1)
Dialectical vs. demonstrative reasoning in the history of western thought. (1968) (1)
Psychotherapy as Practical Teleology: Viewing the Person as Agent (2001) (1)
A teleologist's reactions to On private events and theoretical terms' (1992) (1)
The human person in modern psychological science (1970) (1)
FREE WILL AS TRANSCENDING THE UNIDIRECTIONAL NEURAL SUBSTRATE (1983) (1)
13 – Parental–Familial Life Theme (1982) (0)
The reluctant dialectician (1976) (0)
The evolutionary connection. (1997) (0)
Emotional Factors in the Learning and Nonspecific Transfer of White and Black Students. (1971) (0)
Models of memory: Why so many? Why so limited? (1998) (0)
In Quest of Psychology: Via History or Experiment? (1989) (0)
Do we have here a distinction lacking in difference (1990) (0)
What is a final cause (1978) (0)
In Search of a Distinction: Counseling Versus Scientific Theorizing, or Theory Versus Method? (1988) (0)
Jung's Word-Association Method: An Insider's View. (1986) (0)
Collective theorizing in the third millennium. (2003) (0)
Psychotherapy, personality theory, and the proper study of human beings. (1968) (0)
Some questions about the explanatory terminology used in any re-framing of psychology's metaphysical presuppositions: A response to Bickhard and Christopher☆ (1994) (0)
Contribution to the Debate: Phenomenology and Empiricism (1983) (0)
A Primer of the Primrose-Path Psychology. (1979) (0)
One more time: Dialectical reasoning is . . . (1983) (0)
The Flight of an Albatross. (1977) (0)
Oil and water just don't mix. (1990) (0)
The Humanist's Humanitarian. (1971) (0)
The natural selection of minds. (1998) (0)
Is there an unrecognized teleology in Hume's analysis of causation? (1998) (0)
10 – Financial–Acquisitive Life Theme (1982) (0)
An orientation for the future. (1968) (0)
The Marginalist as Alternativist. (1997) (0)
Altered states of consciousness. (1997) (0)
Title Page / Contents / Dedication / Contributors to the Volume / Addresses of the Contributors / Introduction (1976) (0)
2 – Theoretical and Methodological Considerations (1982) (0)
A missing link in the human image. (2003) (0)
The multiple functions of theory in a review of classical terminology. (1968) (0)
Biology and behavior. (2003) (0)
Ubiquitous Oppositionality in Human Motivation. (1991) (0)
11 – Locale–Residential Life Theme (1982) (0)
12 – Marital–Familial Life Theme (1982) (0)
Being human collectively and individually. (2003) (0)
The Anxiety of Meaning. (1978) (0)
Sigmund Freud as a Logical Phenomenologist (1984) (0)
3 – The Concept of Development (1982) (0)
Fundamental dimensions of theoretical orientation. (1968) (0)
Explaining Helping Relationships Through Learning Theories and the Question of Human Agency: Science, Values and Teleological Explanations of Human Action (1988) (0)
Computers and consciousness. (1997) (0)
4 – The Basic Independent Variables: Tests of Mental Ability and Personality (1982) (0)
Construing the Constructive Processes of Living Systems. (1990) (0)
Individuality and Commonality in the Reality of Psychotherapy. (1998) (0)
The self takes over. (2003) (0)
Some Reflections on Bodily Reflections. (1986) (0)
A Rep Grid for all Reasons. (1986) (0)
Precedents and Professors—The Struggle Over Common Ground (1984) (0)
9 – Ego-Functional Life Theme (1982) (0)
Intention in mechanisms and the Baconian criticism: is the modern cognitivist reviving Aristotelian excesses (1993) (0)
Personality assessment from the view of logical learning theory. (1985) (0)
1 – The Longitudinal Study and Its Historical Setting (1982) (0)
Shifting grounds to the logos. (1997) (0)
In search of a grounding. (1997) (0)
Personality theorizing as describing individuals or collectives. (2003) (0)
The meanings of lawfulness and determinism in modem science. (1968) (0)
The role of dialectic in Freudian and Jungian psychoanalytical theory. (1968) (0)
Only Individuals have Selves: Heinz Kohut and Psychoanalysis. (1992) (0)
Exclusivity in Psychological Specialization: A Conceptual or Practical Problem? (1983) (0)
The telic triune: Consciousness, self, and free will. (1997) (0)
7 – Analytical Procedures and Overview of Life Themes–Clusters (1982) (0)
Analogies between human and non-human: A response to Kemp☆ (1988) (0)
5 – The Basic Dependent Variables: Life Theme Measures (1982) (0)
THE TWO TELEOLOGIES OF ADLER'S INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY] (2009) (0)
Freud's confrontation with the telic mind. (1981) (0)
The concept of psychic consciousness across the ages. (1997) (0)
A Diagnostic Primer for Critical Assessment. (1983) (0)
Introspective and causal analysis in the study of man. (1968) (0)
Chapter 4 Sigmund Freud: The Reluctant Dialectician (1976) (0)
Problems with Hypothetical-Deductive Explanation (1986) (0)
Causal orientation and personal adjustment of hospitalized veterans. (1977) (0)
Is a Levels Model of Intention Just Another Mixed Model (1990) (0)
The Secular Humanist as Social Advocate. (1993) (0)
Psychology's problems are theoretical, not methodological. (1990) (0)
14 – Recreational–Social Life Theme (1982) (0)
15 – Religious–Humanism Life Theme (1982) (0)
8 – Occupational Life Theme (1982) (0)
Technical Problems with Teleological Explanation in Psychopathology: Sigmund Freud as a Case in Point (1990) (0)
Cross-References / Subject Index / Name Index (1976) (0)
Existential-phenomenological psychology is alive and growing. (1990) (0)
Transformation "is" abstraction from perception. (1991) (0)
Cell Assemblies, All in a Row. (1972) (0)
Triadic Causation as Human Teleology. (1990) (0)
Can We Religiously Avoid the Role of Evidence in Science (1986) (0)
The meaning of “psychological” in a line of theorizing. (1986) (0)
Signs, Symbols, and the Human Creative Capacity. (1984) (0)
Career and professional problems of psychology as a science of man. (1968) (0)
Personality and Life-Style of Young Male Managers: A Logical Learning Theory Analysis (2013) (0)
Methods of evidence in arriving at knowledge. (1968) (0)
In Search and Proof of Human Beings, Not Machines (2005) (0)
Analyzing Psychology's Complementary Assumptions. (1992) (0)
Review of Intentionality and the problem of the unconscious. (1973) (0)
The play of metaconstructs in personality theory and the images of man. (1968) (0)
Values at every turn. (2003) (0)
Chapter 12 A Summing Up (1976) (0)
The enigmas of control and prediction for a science of man. (1968) (0)
6 – Mixing the Basic Variables: Thrust–Scope and Clustering Analyses (1982) (0)
Psychoanalyzing psychic consciousness. (1997) (0)
16 – Service Life Theme (1982) (0)
Personality in Nondepth. (1984) (0)
Turning Reductive Science Around to Make Way for the Emergence of Human Agency. (2004) (0)
The humanities enrich our theories, not our methods. (1990) (0)
Collectives and consciousness. (1997) (0)
Sundry points for further consideration. (1997) (0)
"The Marginalist as Alternativist" Erratum. (1997) (0)
Philosophical Reflections on a Teleological View of Mind and Mental Health (1982) (0)

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