Toward a psychology of being
By: by Abraham H. Maslow
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bensenville, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781631821097
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology); Personality; Motivation (Psychology); Humanistic psychology
Description: Maslow's theories of self-actualization and the hierarchy of human needs are the cornerstone of modern humanistic psychology, and no book so well epitomizes those ideas as this classic. Its influence continues to spread, decades after its author's death, beyond psychology and throughout the humanities, social theory, and business management theory. Its enduring popularity stems from the important questions it raises and the answers it provides concerning what is fundamental to human nature and psychological well-being, and what is needed to promote, maintain, and restore mental and emotional well-being.
Notes: Reprint of first edition, 1962.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1: A larger jurisdiction for psychology. Introduction: Toward a psychology of health ; What psychology can learn from the existentialists; title: pt. 2: Growth and motivation. Deficiency motivation and growth motivation ; Defense and growth ; The need to know and the fear of knowing; title: pt. 3: Growth and cognition. Cognition of being in the peak-experiences ; Peak-experiences as acute identity-experiences ; Some dangers of being-cognition ; Resistance to being rubricized; title: pt. 4: Creativeness. Creativity in self-actualizing people; title: pt. 5: Values. Psychological data and human values ; Values, growth, and health ; Health as transcendence of environment; title: pt. 6: Future tasks. Some basic propositions of a growth and self-actualization psychology.