Self actualization is often used as a term to refer to types of self discovery and exploration. On Philip Goddard's Self actualization site, self actualization is described as "the most fundamental li ...
Maslow early noted his impression that "impulsivity, the unrestrained expression of any whim, the direct seeking for 'kicks' and for non-social and purely private pleasures...is often mislabelled self ...
Self-actualization is at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs - becoming '"fully human"...maturity or self-actualization' - and is considered a part of the humanistic approach to personality. Humani ...
A self-actualizer is a person who is living creatively and fully using his or her potentials. What a man can do, he must do. It refers to the desire for self-fulfillment, namely, to the tendency for h ...
Abraham Maslow's book Motivation and Psychology started a philosophical revolution out of which grew humanistic psychology. This changed the view of human nature from a negative point of view - man is ...
Kurt Goldstein's book The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man (1939), presented self-actualization as "the tendency to actualize, as much as possible, indiv ...
Self-actualization is a term that has been used in various psychology theories, often in slightly different ways. The term was originally introduced by the organismic theorist Kurt Goldstein for the m ...