Before you is the first domestic book dedicated to the fashionable in the last decade and certainly important, but at the same time insufficiently meaningful in its methodological foundations approach in academic and applied psychology - humanistic psychology. The word “humanism” today is largely devalued, firstly , its demagogic-ideological interpretation for many decades and, secondly, the objective situation in post-perestroika Russia, which deprived people of their usual way of life, which led many to the loss of value guidelines, to the loss of a fair share of faith in man. It’s time to recall the definition of “neighbor” from Ambrose Bierce’s “Satan’s Dictionary”: “He is a person whom we are ordered to love as ourselves, and who does everything to make us disobey.” However, if we recall the etymology of the word “humanism”, which directly comes from the word “man”, one cannot but recognize the return to man as quite logical right now, when public consciousness, having passed the path from the image of a man-cog to the image of a man-factor, continues to move towards a new, or rather, well-forgotten old image - the image of a man-person. This image of man, in the fullness of its specifically human manifestations, is beginning to actively gain public recognition, although this struggle is by no means over. However, this gives us the right to talk about a humanistic renaissance in society. One of its manifestations is, in particular, a sharp change in attitude towards religion, which has become an object of not only recognition and interest, but also fashion. Psychology has also become fashionable, the demand for which is growing by leaps and bounds. This begs the question: is a non-humanistic human psychology possible at all? Isn’t the phrase “humanistic psychology” a tautology? To answer this question, we should return to the history of its origin, which is partly reflected in the articles included in this collection.