His Biography, hierarchy of needs and achievements,

1. ABRAHAM HAROLD
MASLOW
ABRAHAM HAROLD
MASLOW

2. EARLY LIFE
 Born April 1, 1908, in Manhattan, NY
 His parents: Samuel Maslow and Rose Schilosky Maslow were
Russians Jews
 He was the oldest of 7 children
 As an adolescent, he was terribly shy, unhappy, isolated, and
self-rejecting and was described as smart
 He tolerated his often-absentminded father but deeply loathed
his mother and wanted no interaction with her whatsoever
 Fortunately, a loving uncle, his mother’s brother, watched over
himin adolescence and showed him what normality and decency
were

3. A year before his own death, Maslow (1969) entered this reflection
in his diary:
“What I had reacted against and totally hated
and rejected was not only her physical
appearance, but also her values and world
view, her stinginess, her total selfishness, her
lack of love for anyone else in the world, even
her own husband and children…her assumption
that anyone whose wrong who disagreed with
her, her lack of concern for her grandchildren,
her lack of friends, her sloppiness and dirtiness,
her lack of family feeling for her own parents
and siblings…I’ve always wondered where my
Utopianism, ethical stress, humanism, stress on
kind, love, friendship, and all the rest came

4. EARLY EDUCATION
 He attended the Boys High School where he was a
member of several academic clubs and officer to
different school organizations
 He also edited the Latin Magazine and the school’s
Physics paper for a year
 He was bullied by his teachers and classmates
because of his religion
 He had few friends and he was close to his cousin
Will and developed a close friendship
 He spent more time in libraries than in socialization

5. He developed other strengths as
well:
As a young boy, Maslow believed physical
strength to be the single most defining
characteristic of a true male; hence, he
exercised often and took up weight lifting in
hopes of being transformed into a more
muscular, tough-looking guy, however, he was
unable to achieve this due to his humble-
looking and chaste figure as well as his
studiousness

6. Right after Maslow graduated from Boys High
School, his cousin Will encouraged him to apply to
Cornell University, but lacking self-confidence,
Maslow selected the less prestigious City College
of NY around that time his parents divorced and he
and his father became less emotionally distant

7. TIMELINE:
 In 1928, at the age of 20, he wanted to get
married with his cousin Bertha Goodman age 19
 December 31, 1928 – Abraham Maslow married
Bertha Goodman, his long-time sweetheart and
first cousin. The couple had two daughters, Ann
and Ellen
 One semester before his marriage, Maslow had
enrolled at the university of Wisconsin, from
which he received a BA degree in philosophy in
1930

8.  In 1931, he received his MA in from the University
of Wisconsin
 In 1934, Maslow received his doctorate, received
his PhD. Maslow’s dissertation involved
dominance among a colony of monkeys and
continued to teach at the University of Wisconsin
 In 1935, moved to Columbia University to work
with Edward Lee Thorndike; began his research
on human sexuality
 In 1937, moved to old Brooklyn College and
taught full time

9.  In the mid-1940’s, he was often in poor physical
health, suffering from a series of ailments
including chronic heart problems
 In 1949, he returned to Brooklyn College where
he taught Abnormal Psychology and The Normal
Personalities
 In 1951, Maslow took a position as a chairman in
psychology department at the recently
established Brandeis University in Waltham,
Massachusetts
 In 1962, he founded the American Association of

10.  In July 8, 1966, he was elected president of the
American Psychological Association
 In 1967, he had an almost fatal heart attack
 In 1968, because of his failing health, he quit teaching
 A month before his death, he complained about
people expecting him to be a courageous leader and
spoke person. He wrote: “I am not temperamentally
‘courageous’. My courage is really an overcoming of
all sorts of inhibitions, politeness, gentleness,
timidness-and it always cost me a lot in fatigue,
tension, apprehension, bad sleep”
 He was 62 years old when he died it was on June 8,
1970 while slowly jogging, he suffered a fatal heart
attack in Menlo Park, California

11. THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS
THEORY
One of the many interesting things Maslow
noticed while he worked with monkeys early in his
career (1930’s under Harry Harlow, UW) was that
some needs take precedence over others.
For example, if you are hungry and thirsty, you will
need to try to take care of the thirst first. After all, you
can do without water for a couple of fays. Thirst is a
“stronger” need than hunger.
Likewise, if you are very, very thirsty, but someone
has put a choke hold on you and you can’t breathe,
which is important? The need to breathe, of course.
On the other hand, sex is less powerful than any of
these. Let’s face it, you won’t die if you don’t get it.

12. 2 TYPES OF NEEDS
Deficiency Needs (D-needs)
 Contains the most fundamental and basic four layers
of the pyramid: physiological needs, security or safety
needs, love and belonging, and esteem.
 These needs arise due to deprivation
 The satisfaction of these needs helps to “avoid”
unpleasant feelings or consequences

13. Growth Needs
 It is also known as being needs or B-needs
 Growth needs does not come from a place of “lack”,
but rather from a desire to grow as a person
 Contains the highest level in Maslow’s pyramid: self-
actualization

15. Revised Hierarchy
of Needs

16. COGNITIVE NEEDS
 Needs to increase intelligence and thereby
chase knowledge
 Cognitive need is the expression of the
natural human need to learn, explore,
discover and create to get a better
understandingof the world around them

17. AESTHETIC NEEDS
 This is the desire to appreciate symmetry,
beauty, balance, and order
 This need is a higher need to relate in a
beautiful way with the environment and leads
to the beautiful feeling of intimacy with nature
and everything beautiful

18. SELF – ACTUALIZATION
 Self-actualization is the instinctual needs of
humans to make the most of their abilities and
to strive to be the best they can be.
 Need for growth, development and utilization
of potential, becoming all that one can be,
self-fulfilment

19. TRANSCENDENCE
 The need for helping others to self-actualize
 This need when fulfilled, leads to feelings of
integrity

21.  METAMOTIVATION
 the motivation of self-actualizers, which involves
maximizing personal potential rather than striving for
a particular goal objection
 METANEEDS
 states of growth or being toward which self-
actualizers evolve
 METAPATHOLOGY
 a thwarting of self-development related to failure to
satisfy the metaneeds
 PEAK EXPERIENCES
 a moment of intense ecstasy, similar to a religious or
mystical experience, during which the self is

22. Jonah’s Complex
Is the fear of success which prevents
self-actualization, or the realization of one's
potential. It is the fear of one's own
greatness, the evasion of one's destiny, or
the avoidance of exercising one's talents.