2. BORN AND RAISED IN BROOKLYN NEW
YORK, MASLOW WAS THE OLDEST OF
SEVEN CHILDREN AND WAS CLASSED AS
"MENTALLY UNSTABLE" BY A
PSYCHOLOGIST.
★ HIS PARENTS WERE FIRST GENERATION
JEWISH IMMIGRANTS FROM RUSSIA WHO
FLED FROM CZARIST PERSECUTION IN THE
EARLY 20TH CENTURY.
Biography ★ IT WAS A TOUGH TIME FOR MASLOW, AS
HE EXPERIENCED ANTI-SEMITISM FROM HIS
TEACHERS AND FROM OTHER CHILDREN
AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
★HE HAD VARIOUS ENCOUNTERS WITH
ANTI-SEMITIC GANGS WHO WOULD CHASE
AND THROW ROCKS AT HIM.[6]
★MASLOW AND OTHER OPTIMISTIC
YOUNGSTERS AT THE TIME WITH HIS
BACKGROUND WERE IN THE STRUGGLE TO
OVERCOME SUCH ACTS OF RACISM.
3. ATTENDED CITY
COLLEGE OF NEW
YORK.
TRANSFERRED TO
UNIVERSITY OF
College he WISCONSIN.
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AT WISCONSIN HE
things he PURSUED A LINE OF
studied RESEARCH WHICH
INCLUDED
INVESTIGATING
PRIMATE
DOMINANCE
BEHAVIOR AND
SEXUALITY.
4. ❤ACCORDING TO MASLOW, SELF-ACTUALISING
PEOPLE SHARE THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:
❤TRUTH: HONEST, REALITY, BEAUTY, PURE,
CLEAN AND UNADULTERATED COMPLETENESS.
❤ GOODNESS: RIGHTNESS, DESIRABILITY,
UPRIGHTNESS, BENEVOLENCE, HONESTY
HIS FAMOUS
❤BEAUTY: RIGHTNESS, FORM, ALIVENESS,
SIMPLICITY, RICHNESS, WHOLENESS,
PERFECTION, COMPLETION.
THEORY OFSELF-
ACTUALIZING ❤WHOLENESS: UNITY, INTEGRATION, TENDENCY
TO ONENESS, INTERCONNECTEDNESS, SIMPLICITY,
ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE, ORDER, NOT
PEOPLE. DISSOCIATED, SYNERGY
❤DICHOTOMY-TRANSCENDENCE: ACCEPTANCE,
RESOLUTION, INTEGRATION, POLARITIES,
OPPOSITES, CONTRADICTIONS
❤ALIVENESS: PROCESS, NOT-DEADNESS,
SPONTANEITY, SELF-REGULATION, FULL-
FUNCTIONING
6. Humanistic
psychology
Maslow's thinking was
original. Most
psychologists before him
had been concerned with
the abnormal and the ill.
He urged people to
acknowledge their basic
needs before addressing
higher needs and
ultimately self-
actualization. He wanted
to know what constituted
positive mental
health. Humanistic
psychology gave rise to
several different
therapies, all guided by
the idea that people
possess the inner
resources for growth and
healing and that the
point of therapy is to help
7. PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGON &
POSTIVE PSYCHLOGY
Maslow's influence Maslow's work has enjoyed
extended beyond a revival of interest and
psycology . His work on influence among leaders of
peak expercienes is the positive
relevant to religous studies, psychology movement
while his work on
management is applicable such as Martin
to is used in higher Seligman.The Positive
education for advising movement focuses only on
students and student a higher human nature
retention as well as a key
concept in student
development.
8. He suffered an heart attack
on June 8, 1970.
Towards the end of his
life, Maslow was concerned
Death & Legacy with questions such
as, "Why don't more people
self-actualize if their basic
needs are met? How can
we humanistically
understand the problem of
evil?