Abraham H. Maslow
American psychologist
Abraham H. Maslow was an American psychologist who created the hierarchy of needs, a theory of human motivation that ends in self-actualization.
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American Born 1908 in Brooklyn, United States Died 1970
About Abraham H. Maslow
Maslow was born on April 1, 1908, in Brooklyn, New York, and died on June 8, 1970. He studied psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned his doctorate in 1934. He later taught at Brooklyn College and Brandeis University, where he became chair of psychology in 1951. His hierarchy of needs holds that people seek to meet basic needs first, with self-actualization at the top. He encouraged psychologists to look at people's positive qualities rather than treating them as a collection of symptoms. In 1961 he and Tony Sutich founded the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. The American Humanist Association named him humanist of the year in 1967. Toward a Psychology of Being is one of his books in the BookBits catalog.