Dolly Rebecca Parton died on Tuesday August 26, 2026, in Nashville at the age of eighty, after a brief illness she had kept from the public. She was the fourth of twelve children born in a one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, Tennessee and she never once pretended otherwise. She could name all twelve siblings faster than you could write them down and she liked to prove it. There is a reason this tribute belongs at AHP. In August of 1963, J. F. T. Bugental stood up at the first meeting of the American Association for Humanistic Psychology (AHP’s predecessor) and