Every month I feature some of the most interesting pieces I’ve come across about the history of psychology. (For instance, check out this post and this post.)
This month there’s everything from a thorough biography of America’s most important psychologist to a slideshow about one neurologist’s use of photographs to substantiate lobotomy’s success. Hope you find them fascinating!
1. “Abraham Maslow and the All-American Self”
In this detailed piece in The New Atlantis, writer and contributing editor Algis Valiunas discusses essentially anything and everything you’d want to know about Abraham Maslow. Maslow was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and is best known for creating Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Valiunas describes Maslow as “the most important American psychologist since William James, and perhaps the most important psychologist altogether since Carl Jung.” In the article, he reveals bits of Maslow’s difficult childhood, roundabout education and influences and provides an in-depth discussion of his research and philosophies.
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I think we will re-discover Maslow if there’s enough energy in the community. Glad to see your “push.”
I’ve been working at it for some years, and hope that someday, folks will discover that there’s much more besides the hierarchy.
For example, I’m working up some ideas from the Blackfoot days on “place.” That is, the sense of place or belonging seems to have been missed when studying native populations. If one’s sense of belonging and place is rooted in the Earth and medicine wheels, when that is taken away, it retards growth.
I agree with Bennis and Colin Wilson that Maslow’s contribution will not be fully realized until sometime in the 21st Century.
Cheers.