ABRAHAM MASLOW

TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING CONTAINED

The book titled Toward a Psychology of Being contained a chapter by Abraham Maslow titled Some Basic Propositions of a Growth and Self-Actualization Psychology. In this chapter Maslow expounds on his perspective of self-actualization, and how he believes through growth towards self-actualization a human can maintain their full human potential. Many psychologists in modern practice incorporate some aspects if not all of Maslow’s theories. In studying someone such as Maslow we are given the privilege of studying modern theories, but also at the same time an opportunity to peek into the future of psychology. When psychologists such as Freud, and Skinner introduced their theories it was a new knowledge, or a paradigm shift. Here again with Maslow we can see another paradigm shift occurring. This shift however, is not a different way to practice research methods, or a different way to administer