Transcript part 2

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
“Human nature is not
nearly as bad as it
has been thought to
be”
“third force” father of
humanistic
psychology
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• D-needs: deficiency needs (have an absence of
something)
• B-values: being level (must have all other levels
satisfied); self-actualization
B-values
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Justice
honesty
Wholeness
Beauty
Goodness
• Examples of self-actualizers according to
Maslow: Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln,
Albert Einstein
Peak experiences
• A period of transcending self and being
connected with the world
• Similar to the idea of “flow” (the zone for
athletes) – complete involvement in an
activity with focused concentration
• Mikhal Csikszentmihalyi (chick sent me high ee
• Common to people who are selfactualizing
Features of flow
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Focused attention
Merging of action and awareness
Lack of self-consciousness
Clear goals
Immediate feedback
Sense of control
Transformation of time
Evaluation
1. Recognizes uniqueness and subjective
experience
2. Optimistic view of people
3. Lack of precision; difficulty hypothesis testing
4. Optimism arbitrary?
5. Link clinical work, theory, and research
6. Focus on self
7. Focus on healthy rather than unhealthy
behavior