TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING (Abraham Maslow)

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If we wish to help humans to become more fully human, we must realise not only that they try to realise themselves, but that they are also reluctant or afraid or unable to do so. Only by fully appreciating this dialectic between sickness and health can we help
to tip the balance in favour of health."
Abraham Maslow 

Abraham Maslow's theories of self-actualisation and the hierarchy of human needs are the cornerstone of modern humanistic psychology, and no book so well epitomises those ideas as his classic Toward a Psychology of Being. A profound book, an exciting book, its influence continues to spread, more than a quarter century after its author's death, beyond psychology and throughout the humanities, social theory, and business management theory. Of course, the book's enduring popularity stems from the important questions it raises and the answers it provides concerning what is fundamental to human nature and psychological well-being, and what is needed to promote, maintain, and restore mental and emotional wellbeing. But its success also has to do with Maslow's unique ability to convey difficult philosophical concepts with passion, precision, and astonishing clarity, and, through the power of his words, to ignite in readers a sense of creative joy and wholeness toward which we, as beings capable of self-actualisation, strive. 

This 3rd Edition makes Maslow's ideas accessible to a new generation of psychology students, as well as business people, managers, and trainers interested in applying the study of human behaviour to management techniques. 

Contents:
A LARGER JURISDICTION FOR PSYCHOLOGY
Introduction: Toward a Psychology of Health
What Psychology Can Learn from the Existentialists

GROWTH AND MOTIVATION
Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation
Defense and Growth
The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing

GROWTH AND COGNITION
Cognition of Being in the Peak-Experiences
Peak-Experiences as Acute Identity-Experiences
Some Dangers of Being-Cognition
Resistance to Being Rubricized

CREATIVENESS
Creativity in Self-Actualising People

VALUES
Psychological Data and Human Values
Values, Growth, and Health
Health as Transcendence of Environment

FUTURE TASKS
Some Basic Propositions of a Growth and Self-Actualisation Psychology

PUBLICATION DATE: Dec 1998