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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow's Hierarchy of needs

Deficiency needs
Growth Needs: 'The desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming' (Maslow, 1955). Self-actualisation is the epitome of personal growth.
Applications.

Humanistic psychotherapy, influenced by Rogers. Person -centred. Purpose to move the person from poor self image (perceived self) to more psychologically healthy ideal self. How? Q-sort technique. Also the counselling environment, distinct humanistic features of which include Used to create the right 'conditions for (personal) growth' to help client become a more 'fully functioning person.'
Criticisms / Limitations
  • Construct validity
  • Methodology
  • Culture-bound
  • Free will or determinism


Links to the humanistic approach

Ronald David Laing, was born in Govan, Glasgow and is one of the most controversial figures of 20th Century psychology and philosophy. I like him a lot! His writings - a mix of psychoanalysis, mysticism, existentialism and left-wing politics - is powerful and often disturbing reading. Disturbing because his writings so clearly demonstrate the extent to which the average human being is entrapped by the pressures of social conformity.

Got you interested? Then visit The Unofficial RD Laing site at: http://www.decaelo.com/rdlaing/

Read an Overview of Towards Becoming A Fully Functioning Person by Carl R. Rogers at: http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/1999freiberg/rogers.html

Are you a fully-functioning person? See for yourself at: http://www.topdog04.com/000488.html

Maslow said "Freud put these medical spectacles on our nose. It's time to take them off". To learn more visit http://members.aol.com/timlebon/maslow.htm.

Find out more about the UK Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners. Visit http://www.ahpp.org/

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