Motivation and Personality
- 3rd
- New Delhi Pearson Education 2017
- 335
Preface to the third edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Foreword. The influence of Abraham Maslow / Robert Frager -- Introduction -- Maslow's influence -- A short biography -- References -- [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 -- Summary -- 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 -- References -- Afterword. 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 -- A citation review of Motivation and personality -- Bibliography and selected readings -- Bibliography of the writings of Abraham Maslow -- Name index -- Subject index.