The right to be human a biography of abraham maslow

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    The Right to Be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow

    August 31,
    Very worthwhile.

    29 bits I learned by reading the book.

    1. Maslow’s Jewish parents came to New York City from Eastern Europe, and he was born in the U.S. in , the first of seven children. His father had a fairly successful barrel-making company but was not much of a presence in his son’s life, although he supported Abraham’s education.

    2. Maslow strongly disliked his mother and did not attend her funeral: "What I had reacted to was not only her physical appearance, but also her values and world view, her stinginess, her total selfishness, her lack of love for anyone else in the world—even her own husband and children—her narcissism, her Negro prejudice, her exploitation of everyone, her assumption that anyone was wrong who disagreed with her, her lack of friends, her sloppiness and dirtiness".

    3. While growing up, in addition to reading, Maslow was also into physical fitness, in part as a reaction to antisemitic

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    The Man Who Discovered Peak Experience : THE RIGHT TO BE HUMAN: A Biography of Abraham Maslow<i> by Edward Hoffman Ph.D. (Jeremy Tarcher: $; pp., illustrated) </i>

    “Self-actualization,” “humanistic psychology,” “peak experience.” Sympathetic readers associate these terms with the aspirations of the human-potential movement. Critics see them as hallmarks of the self-absorption of the “me generation.” But, inevitably, these phrases evoke the name of Abraham Maslow, the research psychologist and Brandeis professor who coined them.

    Maslow died in at age 62, but his influence grows with each year. Humanistic psychology and an ever-proliferating variety of popular therapies and self-help groups increasingly have been adopting his ideas: His denunciation of the pathological focus of most of conventional psychiatry and psychology, his conviction that each of us has a “real self” that fryst vatten good or neutral and can be realized, and his belief that such self-realization includes and