Toward a psychology of being / Abraham H. Maslow ; edited by Richard Lowry.
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TextPublication details: New York ; Chichester : Wiley, 1998.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 288p. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780471293095 (hbk.) :
- 0471293091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 155.25 MAS
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection | 155.25 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 207913 |
Originally published: New York; London: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-262) and index.
A LARGER JURISDICTION FOR PSYCHOLOGY; Introduction: Toward a Psychology of Health; What Psychology Can Learn from the Existentialists; GROWTH AND MOTIVATION; Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation; Defense and Growth; The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing; GROWTH AND COGNITION; Cognition of Being in the Peak-Experiences; Peak-Experiences as Acute Identity-Experiences; Some Dangers of Being-Cognition; Resistance to Being Rubricized; CREATIVENESS; Creativity in Self-Actualizing People; VALUES; Psychological Data and Human Values; Values, Growth, and Health; Health as Transcendence of Environment; FUTURE TASKS; Some Basic Propositions of a Growth and Self-Actualization Psychology; Appendices; Bibliography; Additional Bibliography; Index.
This text is the archetypal reference on human behaviour and needs, and a clasic in the literature of psychology. It still forms a part of many college and university courses.