Book Review: Personality and Growth: A Humanistic Psychologist in the Classroom by Maslow, A. H.

MASLOW, Abraham H. (Abraham Harold), 1908-1970; PSYCHOLOGISTS; HUMANISTIC psychology; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL scientists; HUMAN sexuality; HUMAN behavior

On the 5th session, Maslow brought a portable tape recorder into the classroom, and after class discussion about his proposal to tape the rest of the course starting that day, full agreement was seemingly reached to do so. We unmistakably see that Maslow was adamant that psychology and psychiatry had amassed sufficient knowledge to identify the types of emotional patterns and behaviors conducive to well-being versus dissipation and dysfunction. After the course ended, Maslow planned to develop the transcript into a stand-alone book or the foundation for a self-help book. He is the author of major biography of Alfred Adler and Abraham Maslow and also edited a book of Maslow's unfinished articles titled I Future Visions i (Sage). [Extracted from the article]

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