In 1969, a new type of humanistic psychology was introduced to contrast the Freudian ideology and mechanical views of behaviorism. Transpersonal theory was created to study those who were spiritually and consciously beyond the humanistic theory. The main idea of transpersonal theory is the ability of a person to transcend themselves into a better persona of their current state. Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist best known for Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which is a five-stage model (later changed to six) that lays out the basic needs of life. This is often demonstrated as a pyramid with your basic physiological needs (food, water and shelter) as the base and self-actualization as the top of the five-stage model. The revised hierarchy
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While this level is difficult to reach, it is not impossible. As discussed earlier, to make it to self-actualization a person must overcome a deficit at each of the four stages: physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs and esteem needs. Each level represents a stage of life that, when given the proper environment, a person can motivate themselves to grow through.
1. Physiological needs include food, water, sleep and shelter; our basic needs of survival. Without these basic needs, a person does not have the ability to move forward with anything else in life. As human beings, it is not physiologically possible to survive without these necessities. Once the basic needs at the base of the pyramid are met we move up to safety needs.
2. Safety needs include laws, stability and security from anything that threatens our overall well-being. Without this safety net, we are not comfortable in our environment and it will inhibit growth especially since the transpersonal theory supports a nurturing environment committed to …show more content…
Although the hierarchy of needs is easy to use it still has implications. As stated before, it is possible to move in between stages but it is also possible to abandon a stage while trying to achieve another. If someone is in danger and a person risks their own safety to help that person, this is considered a self-actualized action but it is also skipping over the safety needs. Nowhere in Maslow’s hierarchy does he have an option for exceptions. Another implication is the way that Maslow collected his data and performed his research. He used a very small sample size because of the small amount of people that he believed achieved self-actualization. The way that he applied his research is arguably too subjective since the population was based from his opinion of who had achieved self-actualization. Since the measurements for self-actualization were Maslow listening to the select population and observing them, it can be viewed as
While this level is difficult to reach, it is not impossible. As discussed earlier, to make it to self-actualization a person must overcome a deficit at each of the four stages: physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs and esteem needs. Each level represents a stage of life that, when given the proper environment, a person can motivate themselves to grow through.
1. Physiological needs include food, water, sleep and shelter; our basic needs of survival. Without these basic needs, a person does not have the ability to move forward with anything else in life. As human beings, it is not physiologically possible to survive without these necessities. Once the basic needs at the base of the pyramid are met we move up to safety needs.
2. Safety needs include laws, stability and security from anything that threatens our overall well-being. Without this safety net, we are not comfortable in our environment and it will inhibit growth especially since the transpersonal theory supports a nurturing environment committed to …show more content…
Although the hierarchy of needs is easy to use it still has implications. As stated before, it is possible to move in between stages but it is also possible to abandon a stage while trying to achieve another. If someone is in danger and a person risks their own safety to help that person, this is considered a self-actualized action but it is also skipping over the safety needs. Nowhere in Maslow’s hierarchy does he have an option for exceptions. Another implication is the way that Maslow collected his data and performed his research. He used a very small sample size because of the small amount of people that he believed achieved self-actualization. The way that he applied his research is arguably too subjective since the population was based from his opinion of who had achieved self-actualization. Since the measurements for self-actualization were Maslow listening to the select population and observing them, it can be viewed as