American psychologist (1908–1970)
He turned psychology away from pathology and toward potential — arguing that human beings aren't problems to diagnose but creatures climbing toward something higher, with needs stacked like rungs on a ladder.
Abraham Harold Maslow was born April 1, 1908, and spent his career teaching at Cornell, Brooklyn College, Brandeis, The New School, and Columbia. He built his reputation on a reversal: instead of cataloging what breaks in people, he mapped what pulls them forward. That approach produced the hierarchy of needs — a pyramid model where survival needs anchor the bottom and self-actualization crowns the top, each tier a prerequisite for the next. He called it a theory of psychological health, not illness. The framework made him the tenth most cited psychologist of the 20th century in a 2002 Review…
Sourced, dated quotes from Abraham Maslow
I am deliberately rejecting our present easy distinction between sickness and health, at least as far as surface symptoms are concerned. Does sickness mean having symptoms?
If you tell me you have a personality problem, I am not certain until I know you better whether to say "Good" or "I'm sorry".
It seems quite clear that personality problems may sometimes be loud protests against the crushing of one's psychological bones, of one's true inner nature.
For our chronically and extremely hungry man, Utopia can be defined simply as a place where there is plenty of food.
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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