Summary of Abraham H. Maslow's Toward a Psychology of Being

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The new conception of human sickness and health is based on the assumptions that we have an essential, biologically based inner nature that is good or neutral, and that it is best to bring this out and encourage it rather than to suppress it.
#2 The classical approach to personality problems considers them to be problems in an undesirable sense. Struggle, conflict, guilt, bad conscience, anxiety, depression, frustration, and tension are all symptoms of sick and undesirable people. But all of these symptoms are found in healthy people, or people who are growing toward health.
#3 The classical Freudian notion of a superego is entirely authoritarian and relativistic. It is the internalization of the wishes, demands, and ideals of the father and mother, whoever they may be. But there is also another kind of conscience, which is based on the unconscious and preconscious perception of our own nature.
#4 The question of whether or not it is possible to grow and self-fulfill without pain and grief is also important to consider. If these are to some extent unavoidable, then to what extent. If grief and pain are sometimes necessary for growth, then we must learn not to protect people from them automatically.

Sujets

• Personality

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 06 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669380627
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Abraham H. Maslow's Toward a Psychology of Being
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The new conception of human sickness and health is based on the assumptions that we have an essential, biologically based inner nature that is good or neutral, and that it is best to bring this out and encourage it rather than to suppress it.

#2

The classical approach to personality problems considers them to be problems in an undesirable sense. Struggle, conflict, guilt, bad conscience, anxiety, depression, frustration, and tension are all symptoms of sick and undesirable people. But all of these symptoms are found in healthy people, or people who are growing toward health.

#3

The classical Freudian notion of a superego is entirely authoritarian and relativistic. It is the internalization of the wishes, demands, and ideals of the father and mother, whoever they may be. But there is also another kind of conscience, which is based on the unconscious and preconscious perception of our own nature.

#4

The question of whether or not it is possible to grow and self-fulfill without pain and grief is also important to consider. If these are to some extent unavoidable, then to what extent. If grief and pain are sometimes necessary for growth, then we must learn not to protect people from them automatically.

#5

Existentialism is a radical stress on the experience of identity as a sine qua non of human nature and any philosophy or science of human nature. It relies on personal, subjective experience as the foundation upon which abstract knowledge is built.

#6

The core of European existentialism is the gap between human aspirations and human limitations. It deals with the human predicament presented by the difference between what a person wants to be and what he can be.

#7

The European psychologists are stressing the self-making of the self, while the American psychologists are more interested in discovering the self and uncovering therapy. The European concept of the self is an extreme overstatement, while the American concept of the self is too limited.

#8

The existentialists and other groups are helping to teach us about the limits of verbal, analytic, and conceptual rationality. They are part of the current call back to raw experience as prior to any concepts or abstractions.

#9

The importance of the problem of the future for the existentialists is that it demonstrates the importance of the present moment. We must realize that the future is in principle unknown and unknowable, and that all habits, defenses, and coping mechanisms are based on past experience.

#10

The existentialist’s study of the authentic person and of authentic living helps to throw the general phoniness of life into a harsh light that reveals it as sickness. The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity can be painful at first, but it can be exhilarating and strengthening in the end.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The concept of need is defined in terms of the questions it answers and the operations that uncovered it. It is a basic or instinctoid need if its absence produces illness, its presence prevents illness, its restoration cures illness, and under certain free choice situations, it is preferred by the deprived person over other satisfactions.

#2

There is a growing need in psychology for a concept of growth and spontaneity to supplement the concepts of equilibrium, homeostasis, and defense. This is because the pressure toward health makes therapy possible, and it is an absolute sine qua non.

#3

The area of growth is not well defined, and its meaning can be indicated rather than defined. It is not the same as equilibrium, homeostasis, and tension-reduction. Its necessity has been presented to its proponents partly because of dissatisfaction with existing theories, and partly because of positive needs for theories and concepts that better serve the new humanistic value systems.

#4

The definition of self-actualization is that it is the ongoing actualization of potentials, capacities, and talents. It is the fulfillment of a mission, a fuller knowledge of and acceptance of one’s own intrinsic nature, and an unceasing trend toward unity, integration, or synergy within the person.

#5

The psychological life of the person is lived out differently when he is deficiency-need-gratification-bent and when he is growth-dominated or metamotivated. The following differences are clear.