Toward a Psychology of Being : txt
Abraham H. Maslow
- First sublime edition
- 214 p. 23 cm. book
- An Insight book 5 .
Include Appendix A.
Includes bibliography.
Contents: Preface 5 -- Acknowledgement 9 -- I. A Larger Jurisdiction for Psychology -- Introduction: Toward a Psychology of Health 14 -- What Psychology can Learn for the Existentialists 19 -- II. Growth and Motivation -- Deficiency Motivation and Growth 26 -- Defense and Growth 45 -- The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing 58 -- III. Growth and Cognition -- Resistance of Being in the Peak-experience66 -- Peak- experiences as Acute Identity-experiences 92 -- Some Dangers of Being Cognition 102 -- Resistance of Being Rubricized 111 -- IV. Creativeness -- Creativity in Self-Actualizing People 117 -- V. Values -- Psychological Data and Human Values 127 -- Values, Growth, and Health 141 -- Health as transcendence of Environment 150 -- VI. Future Task -- Some Basic Propositions of a Growth and Self-actualization Psychology 157 -- Appendix A -- Are our publications and Conventions Suitable for the Personal Psychologies? 177 --