growth. These phenomena are not easily dealt with; hence, humanistic psychology is still a diverse, struggling field, with no pretense at "having arrived." While its argument with behaviorism thus is not an opposition to being scientific, it is a stance against being scientific with humans (cf. Giorgi, 1970). And its not being "compatible" with behaviorism is not based on the simplistic good guy/bad guy, caring/uncaring, distinctions which Avila reviews. The differences between behaviorism and humanistic psychology are fundamental and ought not to be denied. The latter psychology believes that to be adequately humane our science must be based on man's nature as human, not as mere organism. Granted, none of the various movements within humanistic psychology are as yet sufficiently grounded in terms of approach, method, or content; nevertheless, in the present to some degree and certainly in the long run, it is behaviorism that cannot be as comprehensively humane as can a rigorous humanistic psychology.

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