 American
psychologist and leading exponent of humanistic
psychology. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and
educated at the City College of New York and the
University of Wisconsin, Maslow spent most of his
teaching career at Brandeis University. Judging
orthodox behaviorism and psychoanalysis to be too
rigidly theoretical and concerned with illness,
he developed a theory of motivation describing
the process by which an individual progresses
from basic needs such as food and sex to the
highest needs of what he called
self-actualization—the fulfillment of one's
greatest human potential. Humanistic
psychotherapy, usually in the form of group
therapy, seeks to help the individual progress
through these stages. Maslow's writings include Toward
a Psychology of Being (1962)
and Farther Reaches of Human
Nature (1971).
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