Motivation and personality

Preface to the third edition Preface to the second edition The influence of Abraham Maslow / Robert Frager Maslow's influence [ch.] 1. Motivation theory 1. Preface to motivation theory Holistic approach A paradigm for motivational states Means and ends Unconscious motivation Commonality of human desires Multiple motivations Motivating states Satisfactions generate new motivations Impossibility of listing drives Classifying motivation according to fundamental goals Inadequacy of animal data Environment Integrated action Unmotivated behaviors Possibility of attainment Reality and the unconscious Motivation of highest human capacities 2. A theory of human motivation The basic need hierarchy The basic cognitive needs Characteristics of the basic needs 3. Gratification of basic needs Consequences of satisfying a basic need Learning and gratification Gratification and character formation Gratification and health Gratification and pathology Implications of gratification theory Influence of gratification 4. Instinct theory reexamined The importance of reexamination Critique of traditional instinct theory Basic needs in instinct theory 5. The hierarchy of needs Differences between higher and lower needs Consequences of a hierarchy of needs 6. Unmotivated behavior Coping versus expression Expressive behaviors

[ch.] 2. Psychopathology and normality 7. Origins of pathology Deprivation and threat Conflict and threat Individual definition of threat Trauma and illness as threat Inhibition of self-actualization as threat The source of pathology 8. Is destructiveness instinctive? Animals Children Anthropology Clinical experience Endocrinology and genetics Theoretical considerations Destructiveness: instinctive or learned? 9. Psychotherapy as good human relationships Psychotherapy and need gratification Good human relationships The good society Professional psychotherapy 10. Approaches to normality and health Standard concepts New concepts What we may become Inherent human nature Differentiating the inherent from the accidental Conditions for health Environment and personality Psychological utopia The nature of normality

[ch.] 3. Self-actualization 11. Self-actualizing people : a study of psychological health The study The observations 12. Love in self-actualizing people Openness To love and be loved Sexuality Ego-transcendence Fun and gaiety Respect for others Love as its own reward Altruistic love Detachment and individuality 13. Creativity in self-actualizing people Preconceptions New models Self-actualizing creativeness Resolution of dichotomies Absence of fear Peak experiences Levels of creativity Creativity and self-actualization

[ch.] 4. Methodologies for a human science

14. Questions for a new psychology

Learning

Perception

Emotions

Motivation

Intelligence

Cognition and thinking

Clinical psychology

Animal psychology

Social psychology

Personality

15. A psychological approach to science

Studying the scientist

Science and human values

Understanding values

Human and natural laws

Sociology of science

Different approaches to reality

Psychological health

16. Means centering versus problem centering

Overstress on technique

Means centering and scientific orthodoxy

17. Stereotyping versus true cognition

Attention

Perception

Learning

Thinking

Language

Theory

18. A holistic approach to psychology

Holistic-dynamic approach

The concept of personality syndrome

Characteristics of personality syndromes

Studying the personality syndrome

Level and quality of the personality syndromes

Personality syndromes and behavior

Logical and mathematical expression of syndrome data

The rich harvest of Abraham Maslow / Ruth Cox

Introduction

Humanistic psychology

Transpersonal psychology

Education : humanistic values and new ways of learning

Maslow's impact on work and management

Health and the whole person

Motivation and self-actualization theory and the psychology of women

The synergic society

The perennial harvest

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