Abraham biography

Abraham's parents were Russian Jews who emigrated from Kyiv to America. Maslow received secondary education in free schools in New York. According to Mr. Abraham, up to twenty years, he was nervous, suffering from neurosis by a young man. At school, he becomes the best student, because he spends all his free time in the library, hiding from classmates and household problems.

On the advice of parents, after graduation, Maslow enters the legal city college. Interest in learning disappeared quickly, the career of a lawyer did not attract him at all. Therefore, he quit his studies, without finishing the first year. The formation of Maslow as a psychologist-researcher was directly influenced by a complex relationship with his mother, who raised her son in a hard, authoritarian style.

It was the negative children's memories that became the impetus for the study of the human psyche. In his memoirs, Maslow wrote: "My studies have one common source - they eat hatred and disgust that the mother embodied." At the age of twenty, Abraham married his cousin Bert Gudman and moved to Wisconsin. In the year they entered the university together. Marriage and a new place of residence significantly increased the self -esteem and self -esteem of Maslow, who always experienced complexes about his appearance, so he avoided public places.

At the University of Maslow with zeal, he took up science. At the penultimate course of the university, he has an interest in psychology. Under the influence of the ideas of John Watson, the father of American behaviorism, he chooses a psychological theme for the course work. The vision of Maslow of human psychology for many years Maslow believed that the path to resolving world problems lies through a natural -adolescript approach to human behavior.

But over time, this interpretation became unacceptable to him. At the University of Wisconsin, he begins to engage in experimental studies of animal behavior. Under the leadership of Harry Harlow, did a job on the dominance and sexual behavior of monkeys. The theme of sexuality in those days was a scrupulous society, so few decided to affect it. The first scientific publication on cross-cultural studies in the Indian reservation is published in the year.

Maslow is the founder of humanistic psychology under the influence of Max Wertheimer Maslow begins to study people who have reached self -actualization in life. He calls to study the human in man. Mr. Abraham tried to humanize psychology, but came across a misunderstanding of his colleagues, and the editorial offices of magazines ignored Maslow as a scientist, without taking a single manuscript to print.

But the student environment, on the contrary, was loyal to the views of its teacher. It was students that contributed to the fact that he became the president of the American Psychological Association at the end of the X. The scientific work of Maslow was the first work of Maslow “Motivation and Personality” was released in the year. It sets out a hierarchical theory of needs, which is built into the pyramid.

At the base of the pyramid are basic needs, and on top - the need for self -actualization. But in order for this need to manifest, you need to satisfy the entire underlying hierarchy of needs. In the x years, Maslow's theory has gained popularity and recognition. Then his book “New Frontiers of Human Nature” was published.

In the later works “in the direction of the psychology of being” and “distant limits of the human psyche” it was published after death, in the year, Maslow almost refuses the multi -stage pyramid of needs. Maslow divided all human needs into the lower ones that arose due to the shortage of something and therefore filled and higher needs leading to growth and development, and therefore insatiable.

The author considered this theory preliminary, hoping for its further confirmation. But until that moment he did not live to live, on June 8, Maslow died.