Get Self-Actualized!

Maslow described self-actualization as being "psychologically healthy, fully human, highly evolved, and fully mature". He believed that "healthy" or "self-actualized" individuals possess the following characteristics:

1) An appropriate perception of reality

2) The ability to accept oneself, others and human nature

3)The ability to manifest spontaneity

4) The capacity for focusing concentraion on problem solving

5)A need for detachment and a desire for privacy

6) Independence, autonomy, and a resistance to enculturation

7) An intensity of emotional reaction

8) A frequencty of "peak" experiences that validates the worthwhileness, richness and beauty of life

9) An identification with humankind

10) The ability to achieve satisfactory interpersonal relationships

11) A democratic character structure and strong sense of ethics

12) Creativeness

13) A degree of noncomformance



Freud may be crazy but Maslow has it right :)



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