Maslow, Abraham H(arold)

Maslow, Abraham H(arold)
born April 1, 1908, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died June 8, 1970, Menlo Park, Calif.

U.S. psychologist.

He taught at Brooklyn College (1937–51) and Brandeis University (1951–69). A practitioner of humanistic psychology, he is known for his theory of "self-actualization." In Motivation and Personality (1954) and Toward a Psychology of Being (1962), Maslow argued that each person has a hierarchy of needs that must be satisfied, ranging from basic physiological requirements to love, esteem, and, finally, self-actualization. As each need is satisfied, the next higher level in the emotional hierarchy dominates conscious functioning.

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