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...formulation of Psychologist Abraham Maslow, work functions in a hierarchy of needs: first, work provides food and shelter, basic human maintenance. After that, it can address the need for security and then for friendship and "belongingness." Next, the demands of the ego arise, the need for aspect. Finally, men and women assert a larger desire for "self-actualization." That seems a harmless and even worthy enterprise but sometimes degenerates into self-infatuation, a vaporously selfish discontent that dead-ends in isolation, the empty "ace that gazes back from the mirror...
Psychologist Maslow, for example, once wrote that he found it difficult "to conceive of feeling proud of myself, self-loving and self-respecting, if I were working, for example, in some chewing-gum factory . " Well, two weeks ago, Warner-Lambert announced that it would close down its gum-manufacturing American Chicle factory in Long Island City, N.Y.; the workers who had spent years there making Dentyne and Chiclets were distraught. "It's a beautiful place to work," one feeder-catcher-packer of chewing gum said sadly. "It's just like home." There is a peculiar elitist arrogance...
Marin, writing in Harper's, blames the so-called humanistic psychologies and disciplines, including gestalt, est, Arica and the "self-realization" theories of Abraham Maslow. Marin got some support last week at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Charles Hampden-Turner, president-elect of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, agreed that the humanistic movement "is top-heavy on the side of self-concern. I think that is self-defeating. [You seek] to become one with the universe, but instead, you isolate yourself." Transactional Analyst Barton Knapp of Philadelphia's Laurel Institute added that...
...science conducts its normal, day-to-day operations. Copernicus, for example, established a new paradigm of science with his heliocentric universe, overthrowing the old. Newton did likewise, and so did Einstein. Following such fundamental changes, "normal" scientists go back to work again, but with a different set of assumptions. Maslow pointed out that it is these "normal" technicians who created the stereotype of scientists as mechanical men with narrow vision. The innovative, imaginative paradigm makers, "the eagles of science," are another breed entirely...
Died. Dr. Abraham Maslow, 62, eminent psychologist and author noted for his pioneering work on humanistic psychology; of a heart attack; in Menlo Park, Calif. Maslow's revolutionary theories, published in such books as Motivation and Personality and Psychology of Science, pointed the way toward encounter-group psychotherapy...