Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Abraham Maslow was an American Psychologist born in 1908 in Brooklyn. He began his career at Brooklyn College where he became very popular among the students for his unusual combination of confidence in his subject and personal humidity. After College, he became chairman of the Department of Psychology at Brandeis University and was also president of the American Psychological Association from 1967 to 1968. (2) After World War II, Maslow begun to question the way psychologists ad come to their conclusions, and although he did not completely disagree, he had his own ideas on how to understand the human mind. He called his new discipline humanistic psychology. (Wikipedia) Maslow conducted research and studies in many areas, but he is most remembered for his hierarchy of needs and the concept of self-actualization. (2)(8) He was thinking in an original way. He urged people to acknowledge their basic needs before addressing higher needs and ultimately self-actualization. He viewed human potential as vastly underestimated and an unexplained territory. (2) Maslow died on June 8, 1970, due to a heart attack at the age of 62 in Menlo Park, California. (8)