MASLOWS GROWTH AND SELFACUALIZATION PSYCHOLOGY, Part I

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MASLOWS GROWTH AND SELF-ACUALIZATION PSYCHOLOGY,
Part I

• SOME BASIC PROPOSITIONS

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Propositions I

• 1. We each have an essential inner nature ---
  instinctoid, intrinsic, given, inner core.
• 2. Potentialities with a life history.
• 3. Inner core is biologically based and is weak
  rather than strong.
• Easily overcome.
• Hard to know, rather than easy.
• 4. Some characteristics are species wide.
• 5. Inner nature can be studied scientifically and
  objectively.

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Propositions II

• 6. Aspects of inner nature can be actively
  repressed or forgotten.
• 7. Inner nature rarely dies.
• Will to health --- urge to grow --- pressure to
  self-actualization --- quest for identity.
• 8. Life is a continual series of choices.
• 9. Frustrated inner core leads to sickness.
• 10 Inner core is prior to good and evil.
• 11. Intrinsic guilt is good, even necessary.

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Propositions III

• 12. Ability to be aggressive and angry.
• 13. Our depth can be good, beautiful or
  desirable.
• 14. Without accepting essential core, no
  psychological health is possible.
• Psychological health growth, emotional
  maturity, individuation, productiveness,
  self-actualization, authenticity, full-humanness.
• Self-actualization acceptance and expression of
  the inner core and absence of ill (psychological)
  health.

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Propositions IV

• 15. Best to bring out and encourage or recognize
  inner core, rather than suppress it.
• Education must be directed both toward
  cultivation of controls and cultivation of
  spontaneity and expression.
• 16. Really free choice is directed toward good.
• 17. Acceptance of self need gratification.
• Safety --- belongingness --- respect/esteem ---
  freedom for development (self-actualization).

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Propositions V

• 18. Person must acquire frustration-tolerance.
• Reveals strength and limits
• 19 Using capacities is necessary for growth.
• 20. Two kinds of worlds facts and wishes. Health
  is ability to live in both.
• 21. Immaturity focusing on deficiency-needs.
  Maturity focusing on self-actualization.
• 22. D-cognition focusing on deficiency-needs.
  B-cognition focusing on self-actualization or
  transcendence.
• 23. D-love and B-love.