Abraham Maslow (enumeration)

2 teachers of AM in New York

• ruth benedict

• max wertheimer

Hierarchy of needs

• self actualization

• esteem

• love and belongingness

• safety needs

• physiological needs

TWO LEVELS OF ESTEEM NEEDS

• REPUTATION

• SELF- ESTEEM

VALUES OF SELF- ACTUALIZERS

• TRUTH,

• GOODNESS,

• BEAUTY,

• WHOLENESS,

• ALIVENESS/ SPONTANEITY,

• UNIQUENESS, PERFECTION,

• COMPLETION,

• JUSTICE and ORDER,

• SIMPLICITY,

• RICHNESS or TOTALITY,

• EFFORTLESSNESS,

• PLAYFULNESS/HUMOR,

• SELF- SUFFICIENCY/AUTONOMY.

CRITERIA FOR SELF- ACTUALIZATION

1. Free from psychopathology
2. Had progressed through the hierarchy of needs
3. embracing the B-values
4. full use and exploitation of talents, capacities and potentials

CHARACTERISTICS OF SELF-ACTUALIZING PEOPLE

• Problem- Centering

• The Need for Privacy

• Autonomy

• Creativeness

• Gemeinschaftsgefuhl

MASLOW IDENTIFIED 3 OTHER CATEGORIES OF NEEDS:

• AESTHETIC NEEDS

• COGNITIVE NEEDS

• NEUROTIC NEEDS

MEASURING SELF-ACTUALIZATION

• Personal Orientation Inventory by Everett L. Shostrom
• Short Index of Self-Actualization by Alvin Jones and Rick Crandall
• Brief Index of Self-Actualization by John Sumerlin and Charles Bundrick