The need for humanistically-oriented research may be viewed as the unfinished business of humanistic psychology. Additional research is needed to support some of the theoretical positions of humanistic psychology which have emerged from clinical practice, education, and management consultation rather than from laboratories and field studies. The methodologies of humanistic psychology do include laboratory experimentation and its insistence that the phenomena it investigates must be observable, measurable, and repeatable. But the methodologies also include several alternative approaches: (1) phenomenological approaches, which strive to reflect and intuit on phenomena; (2) systems approaches; (3) human action research, which investigates how human actions differ significantly from other changes in nature; and (4) the mythic method, which attempts to reveal the meanings hidden within emergent patterns contained in the symbolic content of cultural and personal myths. Saybrook Institute was founded in 1970 to foster research in humanistic psychology through graduate education. Students are permitted to use any research method which is appropriate for the problem under investigation. Several recent dissertations illustrate the efforts which have been made by Saybrook students in humanistic research. Humanistic psychology has increased the ways in which investigators can discover, explain, and apply principles of humanistic psychology. Four pages of references conclude the report. (NB)