Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow (1908–1970) was an American psychologist noted for his concept of a "hierarchy of human needs" - with self-actualization at the top. He is considered an originator of humanistic and positive psychology, and wrote about people having an "authentic self", a personal core that strives towards growth. His ideas are still very active in psychology, management training and life coaching. Below are some of his writings that show the connection of Abraham Maslow and Humanism.
Articles by this Author
Self-Actualizing and Beyond
- By Abraham Maslow
- Published 07/3/2008
- Positive Psychology
"What I would like to do now is to explore some aspects of the nature
of self-actualization, not as a grand abstraction, but in terms of the
operational meaning of the self-actualization process. What does self-actualization mean in moment-to-moment terms? What does it mean on Tuesday at four o'clock?"
Toward a Psychology of Being
- By Abraham Maslow
- Published 07/3/2008
- Positive Psychology , Change, growth, coaching
It is true that human beings strive perpetually toward ultimate
humanness, which itself may be anyway a different kind of Becoming and
growing. It's as if we were doomed forever to try to arrive at a state
to which we could never attain. Fortunately we now know this not to be
true, or at least it is not the only truth. There is another truth
which integrates with it. We are again and again rewarded for good
Becoming by transient states of absolute Being, by peak-experiences.