Maslow holistic-dynamic theory

Part 1: Abraham Maslow

Maslow stands alongside Rogers as one of the founders of humanistic psychology.  Although he began his career working with two of the most famous experimental psychologists in America, he was profoundly influenced by the events that led into World War II.  He became devoted to studying the more virtuous aspects of personality, and he may be viewed as one of the founders of positive psychology. Well-known primarily for his work on self-actualization, Maslow also had a significant impact on the field of management.  His fame in both psychology and business makes him a candidate for being perhaps the best-known psychologist of all time (Freud is certainly more famous, but remember that he was a psychiatrist). According to Maslow, his holistic-dynamic theory of personality was a blend of theories that had come before his:

This theory is, I think, in the functionalist tradition of James and Dewey, and is fused with the holism of Wertheimer, Goldstein, and Gestalt psychology, and with the dynamicism of Freud, F

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The Man Who Discovered Peak Experience : THE RIGHT TO BE HUMAN: A Biography of Abraham Maslow<i> by Edward Hoffman Ph.D. (Jeremy Tarcher: $18.95; 416 pp., illustrated) </i>

“Self-actualization,” “humanistic psychology,” “peak experience.” Sympathetic readers associate these terms with the aspirations of the human-potential movement. Critics see them as hallmarks of the self-absorption of the “me generation.” But, inevitably, these phrases evoke the name of Abraham Maslow, the research psychologist and Brandeis professor who coined them.

Maslow died in 1970 at age 62, but his influence grows with each year. Humanistic psychology and an ever-proliferating variety of popular therapies and self-help groups increasingly have been adopting his ideas: His denunciation of the pathological focus of most of conventional psychiatry and psychology, his conviction that each of us has a “real self” that is good or neutral and can be realized, and his belief that such self-realization includes and is in part based on transcendent experience.

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