Toward a Psychology of Being, 3rd Edition

by Maslow, Abraham H.

• ISBN13: 9780471293095
• ISBN10: 0471293091
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-23
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This Third Edition will bring Professor Maslow's ideas to a whole new generation of business and psychology readers, as well as anyone interested in the study of human behavior.

Author Biography

ABRAHAM H. MASLOW, PhD (1908-70), was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at the City College of New York and the University of Wisconsin. Before assuming his post as Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Brandeis University in 1951, he taught for fourteen years at Brooklyn College. Dr. Maslow also served as President of the American Psychological Association from 1967-68.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v	(30)
Editor's Preface to the Third Edition	xxxv	(4)
Preface to the Second Edition	xxxix	(4)
Preface to the First Edition	xliii
PART I. A LARGER JURISDICTION FOR PSYCHOLOGY	3	(22)
One Introduction: Toward a Psychology of Health	3	(8)
Two What Psychology Can Learn from the Existentialists	11	(14)
Part II. GROWTH AND MOTIVATION	25	(56)
Three Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation	25	(26)
Four Defense and Growth	51	(18)
Five The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing	69	(12)
Part III. GROWTH AND COGNITION	81	(68)
Six Cognition of Being in the Peak-Experiences	81	(32)
Seven Peak-Experiences as Acute Identity-Experiences	113	(14)
Eight Some Dangers of Being-Cognition	127	(12)
Nine Resistance to Being Rubricized	139	(10)
Part IV. Creativeness	149	(14)
Ten Creativity in Self-Actualizing People	149	(14)
Part V. VALUES	163	(46)
Eleven Psychological Data and Human Values	163	(20)
Twelve Values, Growth, and Health	183	(14)
Thirteen Health as Transcendence of Environment	197	(12)
Part VI. FUTURE TASKS	209	(26)
Fourteen Some Basic Propositions of a Growth and Self-Actualization Psychology	209	(26)
Appendix A. Are Our Publications and Conventions Suitable for the Personal Psychologies?	235	(6)
Appendix B. Is a Normative Social Psychology Possible?	241	(6)
Bibliography	247	(10)
Additional Bibliography	257	(6)
Index	263