Motivation and Personality

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Thirty-two years after its initial publication, Motivation and Personality still offers unique, penetrating and relevant theories that influence todays cultural trends. In the third edition, Frager and Fadiman have streamlined this classic text to provide greater clarity and focus, while retaining Maslows essential style. Features A comprehensive introduction that supplies the reader with the biographical details and historical significance of Maslow and his work A new conclusion that examines the effects in psycho- therapy, education, medicine and management created by Maslows theories of self-realization, values, choice and responsibility A combination of Maslows early thinking on being behavior into one chapter for added cohesion and easy accessibility A new chapter on self-actualization that presents material previously published in TOWARD A PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING An updated bibliography and citation study The presentation of Maslows original text in this revised and highly readable form highlights for the reader the contemporary relevance of Maslows pioneering theories. Table Of Contents Part I: Motivation Theory Preface to Motivation Theory A Theory of Human Motivation Gratification of Basic Needs Instinct Theory Reexamined The Hierarchy of Needs Unmotivated Behavior Part II: Psychopathology and Normality Origins of Pathology Is Destructiveness Instinctive? Psychotherapy as Good Human Relationships Approaches to Normality and Health Part III: Self-Actualization Self-actualizing People: A Study of Psychological Health Love in Self-actualizing People Creativity in Self-actualizing People Part IV: Methodologies for a Human Science Questions for a New Psychology A Psychological Approach to Science Means Centering Versus Problem Centering Stereotyping Versus True Cognition A Holistic Approach to Psychology