Humanistic Psychology in Selected Plays by Lorraine Hansberry

Psychoanalysis has long been a breakthrough in the field of literary criticism. This book celebrates the intermarriage between two fields:psychology and literature.It provides a thorough analysis of selected dramatic texts authored by the Afro-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry.Such analysis is achieved through employing the humanistic psychology theories of the leading humanistic psychologists: Abraham Maslow,Carl Rogers and Rollo May to emphasize that features of humanistic psychology are detected in Hansberry's plays.The interdisciplinary nature of the book summons psychology and literature readers who have a passion for deduction & induction and a desire to navigate through different areas of knowledge. The book is also deemed an informative reference for scholars who take literature, in general, and Afro-American Drama, in particular, as the subject matter of their research works and who are interested in familiarizing themselves with the field of humanistic psychology.