Toward a Psychology of Being

A “high-ceiling”interpersonal psychology, i.e., an understanding of the highest possible development of human relationships, cannot base itself on deficit theory of motivation

The more growth-motivated the person is the more problem-centered can he be, and the more he can leave self-consciousness behind him as he deals with the objective world.

intrinsic qualities of the perceived person.

EGO-CENTERING AND EGO-TRANSCENDENCE

Brain-injured soldiers. Goldstein’s work (55) is well known to all. He found it necessary to invent the concept of self-actualization to explain the reorganization of the person’s capacities after injury.

Deficiency Motivation and Growth Motivation

Part II:
Growth and Motivation

now call psychology is the study of the tricks we use to avoid the anxiety of absolute novelty by making believe the future will be like the past.

self-actualization is meaningless without reference to a currently active future; life can be a gestalt in time, etc., etc.

ability of healthier people to dip into the unconscious and preconscious, to use and value their primary processes instead of fearing them, to accept their impulses instead of always controlling them, to be able to regress voluntarily without fear, turns out to be one of the main conditions of creativity