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.