Motivation and personality

Maslow, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold) (author., Author).

Summary: A statement on self-actualisation and data. Applications are made to the theories and science of personality, psychotherapy, personal growth and general psychology.

Record details

ISBN: 9780060419873
Physical Description: xxx, 369 pages ; 24 cm.
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Edition: Second edition
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row, [1970]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-353) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A psychological approach to science -- Problem centering vs. means centering in science -- Preface to motivation theory -- A theory of human motivation -- The role of basic need gratification in psychological theory -- The instinctoid nature of basic needs -- Higher and lower needs -- Psychopathogenesis and the theory of threat -- Is destructiveness instinctoid? -- The expressive component of behavior -- Self-actualizing people : a study of psychological health -- Love in self-actualizing people -- Cognition of the individual and of the generic -- Unmotivated and purposeless reactions -- psychotherapy, health, and values.