Farther Reaches of Human Nature

Explores the complexities of human nature by using both the empirical methods of science and the aesthetics of philosophical inquiry. With essays on biology, synergy, creativity, cognition, self-actualization, and the hierarchy of needs, this posthumous work is a synthesis of Maslow's ideas.

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Preface, by Bertha G. Maslow Introduction: A. H. Maslow, by Henry Geiger Part I. HEALTH AND PATHOLOGY 1. Toward a Humanistic Biology 2 Neurosis as a Failure of Personal Growth 3. Self-Actualizing and Beyond. Part II. CREATIVENESS 4. The Creative Attitude 5. A Holistic Approach to Creativity 6. Emotional Blocks to Creativity 7. The Need for Creative People. Part III. VALUES 8. Fusions of Facts and Values 9. Notes on Being-Psychology 10. Comments from a Symposium on Human Values. Part IV. EDUCATION l. Knower and Known 2. Education and Peak Experiences 13. Goals and Implications of Humanistic Education. Part V. SOCIETY 14. Synergy in the Society and in the Individual 15. Questions for the Normative Social Psychologist 16. Synanon and Eupsychia 17. On Eupsychian Management 18. On Low Grumbles, High Grumbles and Meta-grumbles. Part VI. BEING-COGNITION 19. Notes on Innocent Cognition 20. Further Notes on Cognition. Part VII. TRANSCENDENCE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BEING 21. Various Meanings of Transcendence 22. Theory Z. Part VIII. METAMOTIVATION 23. A Theory of Metamotivation: The Biological Rooting of the Value-Life. APPENDICES Appendix A: Comments on Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences. Appendix B: Some Parallels Between Sexual and Dominance Behaviour of Infrahuman Primates. and the Fantasies of Patients in Psychotherapy. Appendix C: Adolescence and Juvenile Delinquency in Two Different Cultures. Appendix D: Criteria for Judging Needs to Be Instinctoid. Appendix E: Abraham H. Maslow: A Bibliography. Bibliography. Index.

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