Abraham Maslow doesn't pretend to have easy answers, absolutes, or solutions that bring the relief of finality—but he does have a deep belief in people. In this Third Edition of Toward a Psychology of Being (the original edition sold well over 100,000 copies), there is a constant optimistic thrust toward a future based on the intrinsic values of humanity. Professor Maslow states that, "This inner nature, as much as we know of it so far, seems not to be intrinsically evil, but rather either neutral or positively ‘good.’ What we call evil behavior appears most often to be a secondary reaction to frustration of this intrinsic nature." He demonstrates that human beings can be loving, noble; and creative, and are capable of pursuing the highest values and aspirations.
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(s): Abraham H. Maslow
Edition: 3
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 1999
Language: English
Commentary: e-ink optimized
Pages: 270
City: New York
Tags: Personality;Motivation;Humanistic psychology;towardpsychology0000masl_w0g7
Cover
Imprint
Contents
Foreword
Editor’s Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
I. A LARGER JURISDICTION FOR PSYCHOLOGY
1 Introduction: Toward a Psychology of Health
2 What Psychology Can Learn from the Existentialists
II. GROWTH AND MOTIVATION
3 Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation
4 Defense and Growth
5 The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing
III. GROWTH AND COGNITION
6 Cognition of Being in the Peak-Experiences
7 Peak-Experiences as Acute Identity-Experiences
8 Some Dangers of Being-Cognition
9 Resistance to Being Rubricized
IV. CREATIVENESS
10 Creativity in Self-Actualizing People
V. VALUES
11 Psychological Data and Human Values
12 Values, Growth, and Health
13 Health as Transcendence of Environment
VI. FUTURE TASKS
14 Some Basic Propositions of a Growth and Self-Actualization Psychology
Appendix A. Are Our Publications and Conventions Suitable for the Personal Psychologies?
Appendix B. Is a Normative Social Psychology Possible?
Bibliography
Additional Bibliography
Index
