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Informationen zum Autor Abraham H. Maslow Klappentext Abraham H. Maslow was one of the foremost spokespersons of humanistic psychology. In The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature, an extension of his classic Toward a Psychology of Being, Maslow explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a wide-ranging synthesis of Maslow's inspiring and influential ideas. Zusammenfassung Explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a synthesis of Maslow's ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Farther Reaches of Human NaturePreface, by Bertha G. Maslow Introduction: A. H. Maslow, by Henry Geiger Part I. Health and Pathology 1. Toward a Humanistic Biology 2. Neurosis as a Failure of Personal Growth 3. Self-Actualizing and Beyond Part II. Creativeness 4. The Creative Attitude 5. A Holistic Approach to Creativity 6. Emotional Blocks to Creativity 7. The Need for Creative People Part III. Values 8. Fusions of Facts and Values 9. Notes on Being-Psychology 10. Comments from a Symposium on Human Values Part IV. Education 11. Knower and Known 12. Education and Peak Experiences 13. Goals and Implications of Humanistic Education Part V. Society 14. Synergy in the Society and in the Individual 15. Questions for the Normative Social Psychologist 16. Synanon and Eupsychia 17. On Eupsychian Management 18. On Low Grumbles, High Grumbles and Meta-grumbles Part VI. Being-Cognition 19. Notes on Innocent Cognition 20. Further Notes on Cognition Part VII. Transcendence and the Psychology of Being 21. Various Meanings of Transcendence 22. Theory Z Part VIII. Metamotivation 23. A Theory of Metamotivation: The Biological Rooting of the Value-Life Appendices Appendix A: Comments on Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences Appendix B: Some Parallels Between Sexual and Dominance Behavior of Infrahuman Primates and the Fantasies of Patients in Psychotherapy Appendix C: Adolescence and Juvenile Delinquency in Two Different Cultures Appendix D: Criteria for Judging Needs to Be Instinctoid Appendix E: Abraham H. Maslow: A Bibliography Bibliography Index ...
