Abraham Maslow

Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization

by Scott Barry Kaufman  · 6 Apr 2020  · 678pp  · 148,827 words

New York Times–bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the WorkLife podcast “In this book Kaufman studies the legacy of Abraham Maslow’s life’s work in humanistic psychology and expands on this with his own insights and studies. The book gives us a path to self

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is rich, deep, and brilliant, a pleasure to read. Scott Barry Kaufman is the new generation’s leading voice in humanistic psychology, a modern-day Abraham Maslow. Updating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs with modern psychology research, Transcend will help readers embark upon a journey to the upper reaches of their potential

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.” —Emily Esfahani Smith, author of The Power of Meaning “This splendid book is a twofer. It’s a retelling of the life of Abraham Maslow woven through an insightful updating of Maslow’s theory.” —Martin Seligman, director, Positive Psychology Center, University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Hope Circuit “

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psychology, regardless of your approach or orientation. It is especially timely to revisit the work of one of the greatest humanists of all time, Abraham Maslow, and to update his insights based on the half a century of data that have accumulated since his death. Scott Barry Kaufman has done just

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than once.” —L. Ari Kopolow, M.D., clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, George Washington University; president emeritus, Suburban Maryland Psychiatric Society; and former student of Abraham Maslow “This is one of the most comprehensive books on what psychology has to say about the path to personal fulfillment. I walked away with a

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133–147, doi:10.1177/1523422318756954. Reprinted with permission of Sage Publications. Ikigai adapted from Helgaknut | Dreamstime.com. Unitary Continuum illustrated by Sacha D. Brown. Abraham Maslow papers and “Axioms” from the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, The University of Akron. The VIA Survey of Character

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sense of belonging, unconditional positive regard, and a sense of common humanity. Preface On June 8, 1970, a warm summer day in Menlo Park, California, Abraham Maslow was furiously writing in his notebook. His mind was full of so many theories and ideas about the higher reaches of human nature, including a

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the horizon a new conception of human sickness and of human health, a psychology that I find so thrilling and so full of wonderful possibilities. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) Through his research on self-actualizing people, Maslow discovered that those who are reaching the full heights of their

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chaotic, or other dangerous things do not happen, and in which, in any case, he has powerful parents or protectors who shield him from harm. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (1954) While overall the world has dramatically improved in many ways—people are living longer, healthier, freer, and more peacefully1—many people

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higher motivations, and to get a lopsided view of human capacities and human nature, is to make the organism extremely and chronically hungry or thirsty. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (1954) “Hangry”—literally a combination of “hungry” and “angry”—has emerged as a cute little expression often used in a joking

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freshman. When he finally reached his office, he found a student sitting at his desk. “Hello, do you know where Dr. Harlow is?” asked Abraham Maslow, only three years younger than his new professor. Harry Harlow stared at his first doctoral student for a moment. “Yes,” he replied.1 Maslow became

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at love as unreal or unnecessary or important. . . . Now he will feel sharply the pangs of loneliness, of ostracism, of rejection, of friendlessness, of rootlessness. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (1954) Sam had an extreme need to belong. When he walked down the street, he smiled at everyone who passed him on

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or desire for a stable, firmly based, (usually) high evaluation of themselves, for self-respect, or self-esteem, and for the esteem of others. —Abraham Maslow, A Theory of Human Motivation (1943) The most important attitude we have may be the attitude we have toward ourselves. A basic sense of self

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this insecurity can express itself. . . . It may have the quality of seclusiveness and withdrawal . . . or it may have the quality of hostility, aggressiveness, and nastiness. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (1954) Modern researchers have identified two unhealthy attempts at regulating the need for self-esteem: grandiose narcissism and vulnerable narcissism. When most

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education, being too exclusively abstract, verbal and bookish, do not have enough place for raw, concrete, esthetic experience, especially of the subjective happenings inside oneself. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) The concept of “openness to experience” played a central role in the thinking of the founding humanistic psychologists. For

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both Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, the height of self-actualization was creativity, and one of the key drivers of creativity was openness to experience. Carl Rogers simply defined openness to

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get lost. INTELLECT: FINDING YOUR WAY BACK TO SHORE Slipping into “craziness” is frightening only for those who are not fully confident of their sanity. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) [Knowledge and understanding make] the person bigger, wiser, richer, stronger, more evolved, more mature. [They represent] the actualization

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of a human potentiality, the fulfillment of that human destiny foreshadowed by human possibilities. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) While openness to experience is essential for entertaining the possibilities of creative potential, the human intellect is essential for

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love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (1954) Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. —Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (

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because it is their nature to be so spontaneously . . . as a rose emits perfume, as a cat is graceful, or as a child is childish. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (1954) Self-Transcendent Values B-loving people are high in universal concern (commitment to equal opportunity, justice, and protection for all people

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worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) The philosopher Alain de Botton once noted that “choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case

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of the sexual experience. B-Sex Sex and love can be and most often are more perfectly fused with each other in [self-actualizing] people. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (1954) While I was writing this book, a number of people asked me whether sex is a need. Of course, in

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which fate has called them to somehow and which they work at and which they love, so that the work-joy dichotomy in them disappears. —Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971) If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. —Seneca The

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will review the latest science on how to strive wisely and pursue wisely. STRIVING WISELY What is not worth doing is not worth doing well. —Abraham Maslow, Eupsychian Management (1965) Merely having a purpose is not enough for growth. There are many overarching strivings that we can consciously set for ourselves that

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to its call. There is an interaction, a mutual suitability, like a good marriage or like a good friendship, like being designed for each other. —Abraham Maslow, Eupsychian Management (1965) It’s important to not only choose goals that are highly conducive to growth, but to choose them for the right reasons

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I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities. —Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971) Having a calling that really suits you is one thing; living your calling is quite another. Strivings

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leave immediately, but Abe was too exhausted. As Feng looked down at the register, his entire demeanor transformed. “Maslow?” Feng asked with new excitement. “The Abraham Maslow?” Bowing deeply, and in disbelief, the innkeeper chanted, “Maslow! Maslow! Maslow!” Richard Price, the co-founder of Esalen, rushed in, telling the new guests

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And once we have been in it, we can remember it forever, and feed ourselves on this memory and be sustained in times of stress. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) After completing Motivation and Personality in 1954, Maslow turned his attention to a particular characteristic of self-actualizing people

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who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) While the concepts of awe and wonder have a long history in philosophy and religion, James and Maslow helped

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be used to produce a peak-experience, with core-religious revelation, in non-peakers, thus bridging the chasm between these two separated halves of mankind. —Abraham Maslow, Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences (1964) On April 15, 2012, on an airplane somewhere between Tuscon and Las Vegas, Katherine MacLean “died.” MacLean was

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place to live. * * * In the spring of 1968, Maslow sat down for an extensive interview with his friend Warren Bennis for a documentary called Being Abraham Maslow. The interview took place in Buffalo, just as Maslow was about to head off to Columbus, Ohio, to celebrate the birth of his granddaughter Jeannie

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CHAPTER 8 Theory Z: Toward the Farther Reaches of Human Nature Human life will never be understood unless its highest aspirations are taken into account. —Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (Preface to the 1970 Revised Edition) This third psychology is giving rise to a fourth, “transhumanistic psychology” dealing with transcendent experiences

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and with transcendent values. —Abraham Maslow, “The Farther Reaches of Human Nature” lecture, San Francisco Unitarian Church (1967) Perhaps no word has been used in so many different ways as the

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whole-science, whole-language, whole-mathematics, whole-art, whole-education, and whole-people.”19 WHAT HUMANS COULD BE Perhaps human nature has been sold short. . . . —Abraham Maslow, “The Farther Reaches of Human Nature,” lecture, San Francisco Unitarian Church (1967) The time has come to integrate our understanding of all aspects of human

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nature and, in so doing, create a truly comprehensive psychology. —Abraham Maslow, “Building a New Politics Based on Humanistic Psychology” (unpublished essay) (1969) The Theory Z worldview has deep implications for the good person and the good

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cognitive-behavioral therapy, and indeed, the founder of CBT, Aaron Beck, told me that he was deeply influenced by humanistic thinkers such as Karen Horney, Abraham Maslow, and Gordon Allport.57 In his more recent research on recovery-oriented cognitive therapy, Beck has found that when he and his team treat their

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a theology of evil and sin exclusively; the other is like a theology without any evil at all, and is therefore equally incorrect and unrealistic. —Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (1962) Carl Rogers noted that a common fear among his patients was that therapy would “release the beast” within themselves

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life. NY: Random House. 2. Maslow, A. H. (1966/1996). Critique of self-actualization theory. In E. Hoffman (Ed.), Future visions: The unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow (pp. 26–32). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 3. Maslow, A. H. (1961). Peak experiences as acute identity experiences. The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 21

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Lowry, The journals of A. H. Maslow, p. 869. 11. Michael Murphy, personal correspondence, May 10, 2018. 12. https://www.abrahammaslow.com/audio.html. The Abraham Maslow audio collection: Volume 2, The farther reaches of human nature, part 8, 1967. 13. Schneider, K. J. (2018). The chief peril is not a DSM

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of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, p. 7. 4. Hoffman, E. (1988). The right to be human: A biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Tarcher. 5. Maslow, A. H., & Honigmann, J. (ca. 1943). Northern Blackfoot culture and personality (Unpublished manuscript; Maslow Papers, M443). Archives of the

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History of American Psychology, Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, University of Akron, Akron, OH. 6. Martin Heavy Head [mheavyhead]. (2017, October 21). Abraham Maslow had spent six weeks with Blackfoot People, an experience which he said “shook him to his knees.” He was inspired by us. [Tweet]. Retrieved from

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219. 2. Hoffman, The right to be human, p. 220. 3. Hoffman, The right to be human, p. 219. 4. Burrows, L. (2013). Memory of Abraham Maslow faded, not forgotten. Brandeis Now. Retrieved from http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2013/may/maslow.html. 5. Lowry, The journals of A. H. Maslow, p

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also gave their ideas academic legitimacy. As Jeffrey Kripal notes in his book Esalen: American and the Religion of No Religion, “It was as if Abraham Maslow and this book had appeared on the cultural horizon just for them.” 113. Hoffman, The right to be human. 114. Hoffman, The right to

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of her foster-parents! Insight never ceases.” 59. Heitzman, A. L. (2003). The plateau experience in context: An intensive in-depth psychobiographical case study of Abraham Maslow’s “post-mortem life” (Doctoral dissertation). Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. 60. Heitzman, The plateau experience in context, p. 251. 61. Richard Lowry

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77, 96 Beaty, Roger, 115–16 beautifying all things, 222 Becker, Ernest, 114, 233, 234, 236, 239 behavior and hierarchy of needs, xxvii–xxviii Being Abraham Maslow (documentary), 216 Being-Psychology, xxiv, 151 See also positive psychology Being-Realm. See B-realm belonging, x, xiii, xiv, xxvii, xxx, 9, 34, 38–41

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology

by Kentaro Toyama  · 25 May 2015  · 494pp  · 116,739 words

that could explain this pattern. The one that best fits what I’ve witnessed is the well-known hierarchy of needs developed by the psychologist Abraham Maslow. Lists of the world’s eminent psychologists inevitably include Maslow, and his ideas have taken firm root in fields well beyond psychology.20 But if

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democracy. Inglehart and Welzel themselves cited Maslow: “Aspirations for choice and self-expression are universal human aspirations: attaining them brings feelings of self-fulfillment, as Abraham Maslow pointed out long ago.”23 To explain how self-expression values lead to more democratic societies, they invoked Maslow’s terminology: “As individual safety and

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the workforce.32 Among the creative class, self-actualization is a prominent theme. Florida wrote, “Creative workers do not merely move up the scale in Abraham Maslow’s classic hierarchy of needs. Most are not very worried about meeting the basic needs of subsistence; they’re already on the upper rungs of

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, 2014, www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-hails-mars-mission-success-as-historic/article6441323.ece. Hoffman, Edward, ed. (1996). Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow. Sage. Hoffman, Jan. (2010). On top of the happiness racket. New York Times, Feb. 28, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/fashion/28rubin.html

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Farther Reaches of Human Nature. Viking. ———. (1996). Critique of self-actualization theory. Pp. 26–32 in E. Hoffman, ed., Future Visions: The Unpublished Papers of Abraham Maslow. Sage. Mbiti, Isaac, and David N. Weil. (2011). Mobile banking: The impact of M-PESA in Kenya. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 17129

Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

by Erik Baker  · 13 Jan 2025  · 362pp  · 132,186 words

with somebody or something outside oneself in order to acquire the strength which the individual self is lacking.”11 Fromm’s friend, the young psychologist Abraham Maslow, put the point similarly in 1943: authoritarians were characterized above all by “the tendency to avoid responsibility for one’s own fate.”12 Despite the

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to ‘conform.’”13 If authoritarianism was ultimately an expression of ego weakness, then “democracy” described an environment of ego strength and full psychological health—what Abraham Maslow, following the Gestalt psychologist Kurt Goldstein, called “self-actualization.” The counterpart to the “neurotic” authoritarian subject, Karen Horney wrote, was the individual who was “strong

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entrepreneurial firm, subordinates did not perceive conflict or tension between their freedom and that of the leader. Rather they experienced “synergy,” in the sense that Abraham Maslow and the anthropologist Ruth Benedict used that term.35 The leader exercised initiative by establishing goals, structure, and shared values for the group; the followers

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get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organization objectives”—the hallmark of authoritarian leadership.48 Citing the work of psychologists like Abraham Maslow, McGregor urged managers to move from Theory X to a new “Theory Y.” This more humane and sophisticated philosophy would recognize “the capacities of the

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regularly gave inspirational speeches on what he called “the Polaroid way” to his employees—from ordinary production workers to senior managers. Like Douglas McGregor and Abraham Maslow, Land was sure “that people are not made happy by earnings alone; that they have the need for doing something constructive.” For subordinate employees, this

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relations of production in what had historically been a sparsely populated and overwhelmingly agricultural region. One important apostle of entrepreneurial leadership in the Southwest was Abraham Maslow. In the 1950s and early 1960s, working as the chair of the psychology department at the newly founded Brandeis University, Maslow developed relationships with several

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a 1960 visit to Phoenix. “They will succeed.”86 Chapter 5 The Entrepreneurial Hinterland “The most valuable 100 people to bring into a deteriorating society,” Abraham Maslow journaled in the early 1960s, “would be not 100 chemists, or politicians, or professors, or engineers, but rather 100 entrepreneurs.”1 At that time Maslow

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lessons of colonial independence movements to the cause of Black liberation in the United States, but also among Cold War liberal and conservative intellectuals like Abraham Maslow and policymakers in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.6 For those who used the scheme of entrepreneurial development to conceptualize the boom—emphasizing the

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,” Jobs grew up in Mountain View, California with his own vantage point on the “entrepreneurial” world of Sun Belt high-technology manufacturing—the same culture Abraham Maslow witnessed and celebrated during his California sojourn. As Jobs came of age, outside observers began to take note of the industry’s distinctive mechanisms for

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much its eminently scientific standard-bearers might wish to distance themselves from New Thought’s more eccentric metaphysical speculations. The term itself was popularized by Abraham Maslow, who concluded his 1954 treatise Motivation and Personality with a call for his field to move “toward a positive psychology.” People who are very healthy

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(1954): 35–50, at 49. 35Abraham Maslow and John J. Honigmann, “Synergy: Some Notes of Ruth Benedict,” American Anthropologist 72, no. 2 (1970): 320–333; Abraham Maslow, “Synergy in the Society and in the Individual,” Journal of Individual Psychology 20, no. 2 (1964): 153–164. 36Robert A. Nisbet, “Leadership and Social Crisis

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knowledge, 150, 159, 199, 201, 215 entrepreneurial knowledge workers, 204–5, 240 entrepreneurial leadership, 13, 55, 62, 65, 100–102, 107, 123, 240, 245; and Abraham Maslow, 110, 115–16; and Abraham Zaleznik, 188; and Douglas McGregor, 110; and economic development, 109; and masculinity, 112; and personal development, 109 entrepreneurial life, 1

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unionism, 186; and women, 36; and work scarcity, 249–50 entrepreneurs, 3, 117, 126, 175, 182, 193–94, 201, 208, 245–46, 249, 256; and Abraham Maslow, 110, 115; and Amway, 176; and Andrew Kay, 111; Arab, 123; and Arbeitsfreude, 51; and Arizona, 113–14; and autotelic workers, 245; and Barry Goldwater

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, 172; and Werner Sombart, 51–52; women, 222–23; and workers, 2, 104, 120, 186 entrepreneurship, 1, 7, 191, 212, 234, 240, 245, 252; and Abraham Maslow, 110; and Apple, 148; and The Aquarian Conspiracy, 156–57; Black, 126, 128–31, 224, 225–26; and bureaucracy, 93–94, 187; and business school

50 Psychology Classics

by Tom Butler-Bowdon  · 14 Oct 2007  · 363pp  · 109,374 words

Human Female (1953) 32 Melanie Klein Envy and Gratitude (1957) 33 R. D. Laing The Divided Self: A Study of Sanity and Madness (1960) 34 Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971) 35 Stanley Milgram Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974) 36 Anne Moir & David Jessel Brainsex: The Real

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from mental problems to the study of what makes people happy, optimistic, and productive. To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about

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do what we do: Great thinkers on human motivation Alfred Adler, Understanding Human Nature Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning Eric Hoffer, The True Believer Abraham Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority Ivan Pavlov, Conditioned Reflexes B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity Alfred Adler was

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right conditions, human beings exhibit a frightening willingness to put others through pain in order to be seen kindly by those in authority. Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, on the other hand, identified a minority of self-actualized individuals who did not act simply out of conformity to society but chose their own

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was told that anti-Semitism would affect his career. Harlow soon established a primate psychology lab, and worked with IQ researcher Lewis Terman, and also Abraham Maslow. Harlow stayed at the University of Wisconsin for most of his career, and was George Cary Comstock Research Professor of Psychology until 1974. He did

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Freud The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (p 104) Melanie Klein Envy and Gratitude (p 180) R. D. Laing The Divided Self (p 186) Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (p 192) Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (p 238) * * * CHAPTER 28 Karen Horney Karen Danielsen was in her

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her interpersonal approach and emphasis on uncovering the “real self”—with its great potential—were important influences on the humanistic psychology of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. Finally, Horney wished to make the process of analysis sufficiently understandable that people could analyze themselves. In this she presaged both cognitive therapy and the

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. Final comments Horney’s idea of the “wholehearted” person who is fully in touch with their genuine or real self is not that different to Abraham Maslow’s “selfactualized” individual or Carl Rogers’ notion of “becoming a person.” To sum up her philosophy, Horney quotes psychologist John Macmurray: “What other significance can

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68) Viktor Frankl The Will to Meaning (p 100) Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (p 238) Martin Seligman Authentic Happiness (p 254) * * * CHAPTER 34 Abraham Maslow Though the term “self-actualized” was coined by another psychologist, Kurt Goldstein, it was Maslow who made the concept well known. It described those seemingly

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seek meaningful work above other rewards, being reminded of the Jonah complex can urge us to live up to our potential and think really big. Abraham Maslow Born in 1908 in a poor part of Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the oldest of seven children. Although his parents were uneducated Russian-Jewish

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Milton Erickson My Voice Will Go With You (p 78) Karen Horney Our Inner Conflicts (p 156) R. D. Laing The Divided Self (p 186) Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (p 192) Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person (p 238) * * * CHAPTER 38 Fritz Perls The Esalen Institute on the

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person clearly sees your potential. In a similar vein Robert Bolton People Skills (p 32) Milton Erickson My Voice Will Go With You (p 78) Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (p 192) Fritz Perls Gestalt Therapy (p 216) Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, & Sheila Heen Difficult Conversations (p 272) * * * CHAPTER

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or she “has been created to become.” Such a shift in emphasis toward the possible (as opposed to merely the problematic) made Rogers, along with Abraham Maslow, a major figure in the new humanistic psychology, with its notions that we take for granted today about personal growth and human potential. On Becoming

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the American Psychological Association, from which he has also received two Distinguished Scientific Contribution awards. Past presidents of the Association include William James, John Dewey, Abraham Maslow, and Harry Harlow. Seligman has authored 200 academic articles and 20 books, including Helplessness (1975, 1993), Abnormal Psychology (1982, 1995) with David Rosenhan, Learned Optimism

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business guru through his categories of management styles into “Theory X” (directive control by bosses) and “Theory Y” (employees left to motivate themselves). Inspired by Abraham Maslow’s humanistic psychology. 31 Hugo Munsterberg Psychology and Crime (1908) German-born founder of experimental psychology invited to work at Harvard with William James. Was

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de Bono Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step (1970) Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (1970) Abraham Maslow The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (1971) B. F. Skinner Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971) Gail Sheehy Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (1974) Stanley

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Dec 2009  · 879pp  · 233,093 words

to why society was the way it was and, more important, how to find personal meaning in a heartless world. Humanist psychologists including Rollo May, Abraham Maslow, and Carl Rogers stepped into the breach, offering a psychological approach and methodology for examining the interior world of the psyche and the condition of

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the world, create it by our decision, our fiat, our choice; and we love it, give it affect, energy, power to love and change. . . .”87 Abraham Maslow, who studied at Harry Harlow’s laboratory in the 1930s—Harlow conducted the famous macaque-monkey studies on infant attachment to surrogate mothers—was best

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, said Kohut, “can be condensed into a single evocative phrase: we must strive not only for scientific empathy but also for an empathic science.”24 Abraham Maslow, among others, concurred with Kohut’s vision of a new science and attempted to calm the rising fury within the scientific establishment by clarifying what

The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)

by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen  · 2 Nov 1999  · 435pp  · 136,906 words

in a world that seems radically out of sync (think of John’s colleagues’ slow-motion mouths) is to be intense, complex, and driven. As Abraham Maslow pointed out, we are all driven by the urge to meet our needs. What if one of our most fundamental needs is to have things

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self-acceptance comes in a change in our self-concept and understanding the depth and breadth of our abilities. In recent years, noted humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow theorized about the human need for meaningful endeavor at the higher levels of human evolution. His famous “hierarchy of needs” suggests that well-being begins

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. Mood also makes us deeply human, which is the vital difference between us and the androids of science fiction. Throughout his career, esteemed humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow found that self-actualizing people dealt with emotional expression differently than other adults. Their feelings were unencumbered, their expression and spontaneity childlike in its freedom

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not ordinary people with something special added, but dynamic people with nothing suppressed or taken away. In The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow, author Edward Hoffman tells how Maslow challenged modern psychological premises by studying human exemplars rather than the “mentally ill or statistically average” to “devise accurate

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heightened awareness and ability to appreciate what’s most valuable from the start. Some gain it through life’s turnabout events. After a heart attack, Abraham Maslow noted a profound change in his sources of satisfaction: One very important aspect of the postmortem life is that everything gets doubly precious.… You get

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gaze to look at the world through more universal eyes. Apparent in the most eminent contributors to humanity is a synthesis of “I” and “we.” Abraham Maslow describes this adopted perspective of the collective good as a “fusion between the person and his world which has so often been reported as an

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? Issues for Gifted Adults.” Journal of Counseling and Development, 64, pp. 572–575. 3. Hoffman, Edward. (1988) The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, Inc., p. 187. 4. Maslow, Abraham. (1987) Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Row, pp. 160–161 (third edition). 5. Roeper

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. Shnayerson, Michael. (1994) “A Star is Reborn.” Vanity Fair, November, pp. 153, 194. 2. Hoffman, Edward. (1988) The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, p. 32. 3. von Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina. (1978) “On the Ineffable Inspiration of the Holy Spirit.” In C. Cosmar, J. Keefe

The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)

by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen  · 18 Feb 2015  · 435pp  · 136,741 words

in a world that seems radically out of sync (think of John’s colleagues’ slow-motion mouths) is to be intense, complex, and driven. As Abraham Maslow pointed out, we are all driven by the urge to meet our needs. What if one of our most fundamental needs is to have things

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self-acceptance comes in a change in our self-concept and understanding the depth and breadth of our abilities. In recent years, noted humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow theorized about the human need for meaningful endeavor at the higher levels of human evolution. His famous “hierarchy of needs” suggests that well-being begins

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. Mood also makes us deeply human, which is the vital difference between us and the androids of science fiction. Throughout his career, esteemed humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow found that self-actualizing people dealt with emotional expression differently than other adults. Their feelings were unencumbered, their expression and spontaneity childlike in its freedom

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not ordinary people with something special added, but dynamic people with nothing suppressed or taken away. In The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow, author Edward Hoffman tells how Maslow challenged modern psychological premises by studying human exemplars rather than the “mentally ill or statistically average” to “devise accurate

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heightened awareness and ability to appreciate what’s most valuable from the start. Some gain it through life’s turnabout events. After a heart attack, Abraham Maslow noted a profound change in his sources of satisfaction: One very important aspect of the postmortem life is that everything gets doubly precious.… You get

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gaze to look at the world through more universal eyes. Apparent in the most eminent contributors to humanity is a synthesis of “I” and “we.” Abraham Maslow describes this adopted perspective of the collective good as a “fusion between the person and his world which has so often been reported as an

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? Issues for Gifted Adults.” Journal of Counseling and Development, 64, pp. 572–575. 3. Hoffman, Edward. (1988) The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, Inc., p. 187. 4. Maslow, Abraham. (1987) Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Row, pp. 160–161 (third edition). 5. Roeper

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. Shnayerson, Michael. (1994) “A Star is Reborn.” Vanity Fair, November, pp. 153, 194. 2. Hoffman, Edward. (1988) The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Jeremy Tarcher, p. 32. 3. von Greiffenberg, Catharina Regina. (1978) “On the Ineffable Inspiration of the Holy Spirit.” In C. Cosmar, J. Keefe

Designing the Mind: The Principles of Psychitecture

by Designing The Mind and Ryan A Bush  · 10 Jan 2021

more interesting. My philosophical mentors have included Lao Tzu, Siddhārtha Gautama, Aristotle, Epicurus, Diogenes, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descartes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Abraham Maslow, Victor Frankl, Aaron Beck, and many more. My contemporary influences are too many to name here, but you will be introduced to them along the

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of Introspection Do You Want What You Want? It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. - Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality So maybe our beliefs about the external world are flawed, but if there is one thing we know, surely it is what

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unmistakable like the instincts of animals. It is weak and delicate and subtle and easily overcome by habit, cultural pressure, and wrong attitudes toward it. - Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being There is one area of our minds which we must understand deeply in order to live great lives - or even

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to know what that means. One of the great psychitectural guides, Abraham Maslow, thought each person had a biologically inscribed inner core in his mind, guiding him in the same way an acorn is guided toward becoming an

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not kill us, makes us stronger. - Kelly Clarkson - Just kidding, that one’s Nietzsche too.54 Another strong supporter of choosing growth over fear was Abraham Maslow. But he is also responsible for popularizing one of the greatest obstacles to this choice: needs. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs taught people that they

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can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. - Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science You must understand that your mind is not a delicate machine to be protected from variability and stress. The mind can

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develop more and more fully in their own style. The motivation of ordinary men is a striving for the basic need gratifications that they lack. - Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality A major source of motivation comes from choosing goals we truly find rewarding and authentic. Though we have talked about the importance

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by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus  · 10 Mar 2009  · 454pp  · 107,163 words

environment and nature, environmental and conservation leaders have failed to create a politics capable of dealing with ecological crises. 2. In 1943, the American psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote a seminal paper called “A Theory of Human Motivation.”8 In it he introduced the theory that humans have a “hierarchy of needs,” a

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needs, we all experience a variety of postmaterial needs that are no less strongly felt than our material needs for sustenance and security. This was Abraham Maslow’s central insight—that higher needs such as personal freedom, meaningful work, and self-creation do not emerge strongly among those who have barely enough

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House, 2000), 133, 135, 139. [back] 37. “Become who you are!” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 2005). [back] 38. Abraham Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1968, 1999), 149–234. [back] 39. “If we value independence, if we are disturbed

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits

by Richard Davies  · 4 Sep 2019  · 412pp  · 128,042 words

artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality, 1954 ZAATARI EMERGES THE FOX They call him the Fox because of his eyes. Khaled’s gaze flicks from side to side

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shade of one of the many empty shop units. A couple were talking, but most just stared out across the desert. THE PYRAMID OF LIFE Abraham Maslow would have had firm opinions about which of the two refugee camps, Azraq or Zaatari, was a better place to rebuild a life uprooted by

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made in Zaatari. Visiting these economies, talking to the people who live there, and seeing them through the lens of the human needs outlined by Abraham Maslow suggests the official conclusions were the wrong way round. The camps offer the first glimpse of a theme that is central to the failures of

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is that this kind of economic shock – a jolt to people’s roles, responsibilities and status – is important. Flux in these higher needs, to use Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy, can be just as costly as the raw economic destruction of a natural disaster. Economic flux, the changing and churning of work, can

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