PSY 3303 Lecture 15: Abraham Maslow
3 Dec 2016
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Lecture 15 abraham maslow: psychological health and self-actualization. Reductive analytic approach to science reduced human beings to a collection of habits and conflicts. It desacralizes people by making them less marvelous, beautiful, and awesome than they really are. Proposed a holistic-analytic approach to science where health could be seen as more than absence of pathology. This psychology studied the person as a thinking, feeling totality. To study human motivation and the capacity for psychological health. To study healthy personality in its process toward self-actualization. He is one of the founders of humanistic psychology which does not focus only on pathology and. Deficiency in something i am not enough . We experience all, but we must look at which we gravitate toward the most. We all have a glimpse of self-actualization, but we just don"t stay there for long. For example looking at a beautiful sunrise: psychological needs.
