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Abraham Maslow was an American Psychologist who was a pital part in the rise of the Humanistic Approach, or the Third Force. Born in 1908 in Brooklyn, New York, Abraham Maslow was a Jewish imigrant and being poor, his parents wanted Abraham to succeed in academics. His parents wanted Maslow to take law, and he followed their wishes. However, during his 3 years in the City College of New York and 1 year in Cornell University, Maslow found a new area that would make him the man that he is today. Maslow became interested in psychology, recieving the doctarate in psychology in 1934. He teached in Brooklyn College and then moved later to become the chairman of psychology in Brandein University. And in 1968, Maslow was elected as the president of the American Psychological Association. Maslow wrote two book during his lifetime, Toward a Psychology of Being (1968), and Motivation and Personality (1970). He believed that judging orthodox behaviorism and psychoanalysis was too much concerned with illness so therefore came up with his own theory of development now commonly known as the heriachy of needs. Maslow strongfully believed in the theory of self actualization through satisfying all the needs in his heirachy. Maslow died in 1970 from a sudden heart attack. |
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