30 Mart 2008 Pazar

ABRAHAM MASLOW


Abraham Maslow is an American psychologist and philosopher who is best known for his self-actualization theory of psychology. Self-acusation theory argues that the primary goal of psychotherapy should be the integration of the self. Maslow was an important contributor in the US to humanistic psychology and known as the father of humanistic psychology. His conceptualization of a “hierarchy of human needs” is also known. He argued that each person has a hierarchy of needs that must be satisfied –from basic physiological requirements tı love, esteem, and self-actualization-.
Maslow’s primary contribution to psychology is “Hierarchy of Needs”. Needs which were contended by Maslow are grouped as:
o Conative needs
o Cognitive needs
o Aesthetic needs
o Neurotic needs (do not exist in the hierarchy but exists in theory)

In the pyramid, the more powerful need is lower and the weaker, distinctly human need is higher.

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