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Maslowian Understanding

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AHEM Your inner nature is healthy and fruitful, but if much denied or suppressed you get sick.

Fulfill your highest potentialities instead of amassing psychosomatic symptoms of various kinds.

Maslow's stance is that each person's inner nature is in part unique to himself, in part species-wide. The inner nature is weak and delicate and subtle and easily overcome by habit, cultural pressure, and wrong attitudes.

Personality problems may sometimes be loud protests against the crushing of one's psychological bones, of one's true inner nature.

It seems sick not to protest while crime is being committed.

Tend your inner capacities so as to be a good human being; not thwarted. - Maslow 1968, 1-8; Maslow x 115; 117; 30-31.


B

In a sick culture, to be friendly and mature suggests not being very well adjusted.

Oceanic experiences can change people, like Aurobindo. Also, peak-experiences may have therapeutic effects.

The one who gets them may turn compassionate and perhaps amused too. "This dynamic can sometimes be seen, unhappily, even in the classroom." - Maslow 113; 118; 101; 96; 92; 63.


C

Anything that disturbs self-actualization and its outlets may be turned into something psychopathological. Hence, our understanding of what is a good environment has to change. - Maslow; 115; 33; 26-27; 121.


D

Adhere to the delight of mastery,and tend your deepest capacity in order to manipulate the world as you prefer.

Opinions tend to rise to dominate play. - Maslow 115; 45-46; 33-34; 56.


E

Self-actualization bring with it a surprising amount of detachment and efficiency – that comes by degrees too.

There is a great need for an alternatively built network of positive intercorrelation. - [Maslow 35; 222; 181; 50; 98; 159; 45; 122-23.


F

You can resolve some needs by gratifying them.

Let Inner Reality manage where you are.

The nature of Reality is fit for scientific investigations.

He or she of true freedom can hopefully afford to be bold.

Being spontaneous is costly. Maslow 131; 128; 122; 118; 173; 100; 171; 62; 141; 34; 57-58


G

Adhere as much as can be to the real world and continue to let it reinforce you through what you know and implement stagewise and otherwise.

The elements of courage or daring may be used to improve general regulations around. Maslow 130; 129

Healthy Individuals

Certain characteristics of the fully evolved human being and of the well-growing human being stand out. These hallmarks are in themselves subjectively rewarding, pleasurable and reinforcing and objectively describable and measurable.
      Granted the observed characteristics of the healthy human specimen need research confirmation and exploration, healthy people have the following observed characteristics:
  1. Superior perception of reality. - Clearer, more efficient perception of reality.
  2. Increased acceptance of self, of others and of nature.
  3. Increased spontaneity. - Increased spontaneity, expressiveness; full functioning; aliveness.
  4. Increase in problem-centering.
  5. Increased detachment and desire for privacy.
  6. Increased autonomy, and resistance to enculturation.
  7. Greater freshness of appreciation, and richness of emotional reaction.
  8. Higher frequency of peak experiences.
  9. Increased identification with the human species.
  10. Changed (the clinician would say, improved) interpersonal relations.
  11. More democratic character structure. - Democratic character structure.
  12. Greatly increased creativeness. - Recovery of creativeness.
  13. Certain changes in the value system. - Maslow 25-26; See also 61; 38; 132.

Elements of Maslow's second list

  1. -
  2. More openness to experience.
  3. Increased integration, wholeness, and unity of the person.
  4. -
  5. A real self; a firm identity; autonomy, uniqueness.
  6. -
  7. -
  8. Ability to fuse concreteness and abstractness.
  9. -
  10. Ability to love, etc. - Maslow156-57

Dynamics of B-Love

B-love is love for the essence of another person, and quite unselfish love. It pertains to mature individuals, and Maslow contrasts it with selfish, more immature love.
      B-love is enjoyed, does not need to make troubles and is very pleasure-giving and rewarding this. It may be enjoyed without limits. It can have about the same effects as the aesthetic experience or the mystic experience. The deep effects of experiencing such love are valuable, a richer, "higher," more valuable subjective experience. B-love can be enjoyed at the same time as selfish love – they are complementary and not exclusive towards one another. There is very little or no anxiety-hostility in higher love. It can lead to improvements of various sorts. - Maslow 61


H

Let what becomes structured give pleasures fit for sane developments.

Describing character structures often limits free developments. - Maslow 190 FF; 184; 185; 139-140; 175; 42-43


I

Loss of humanness – including a feeling of responsibility and one's ego-strength - is dangerous.

One should foster and strengthen a child's creative abilities a long time, a long way, so as to sustain healthy self-affirmations.

The source of humor, art, and much else is deep in the inner self.

By some measure of self-actualizing, many dichotomies become resolved, and many dichotomous ways of thinking are understood as immature.

For self-actualizing people, there is a strong tendency for selfishness and unselfishness to fuse into a higher, superordinate unity called 'bunn' in Swedish. - Maslow 169; 190-214

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Literature  
      Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007.
      Npp: Wilson, Colin. New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution. London: Gollancs, 1972.
      Pusb: Maslow, Abraham. Motivation and Personality. 3rd ed. New York, HarperCollins, 1987.
      Rvl: Maslow, Abraham. Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences. Columbus: Ohio State University, 1964.
      Zto: Maslow, Abraham. På vej mod en eksistens-psykologi. København: Nyt Nordisk Forlag, 1970.
      Zun: Maslow, Abraham. Toward a Psychology of Being. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1968.
     
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