So often our experiences with individuals through writing is so incredibly artificial. We don’t get to truly experience the individual but rather the well-crafted, spit-shined-and-polish version of themselves and their thoughts that both they, their editors, and their publishers want the reader to see.
Something very vital, raw, and real - something essential - is lost in the process. Not here.
In Personality and Growth we get to experience Abraham Maslow, the preeminent humanistic psychologist, as a human for the very first time in a technicolor way that isn’t even captured in his very own journal writing vis-a-vis Eupsychian Management / Maslow on Management. The Maslow we find in the transcripts that make up the bulk of this work is unfiltered and of-his-time; he is vulnerable and real in a way that I’ve never before seen in a book precisely because we get this behind-the-scenes look into what it was like to experience Maslow in real life and in his beloved classroom.
From this place, everything lands differently and in a way that, somewhat ironically, is difficult to put into words.
For those that continue to develop their own work and worldview through the study of humanistic psychology the work that is presented here is an invaluable resource that should come to be highly treasured within the field, for it not only grants this beautifully real glimpse into who the real Maslow was, as he lived and breathed, in 1963 / 1964, but also what he perceived the state of psychology to be during this time - a time when he was actively developing the field of humanistic psychology.
It is an unexpected opportunity to understand how the developers of the field arrived at ‘63 / ’64 and what was inspiring them to do what they do and, by doing so, helps us to better understand where we came from so we can better chart the path forward.
I cannot recommend taking the time to read this highly enough.
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An Astonishing Opportunity
Imagine if you could go back in time to, oh, say, 1964 and take a class from one of the most influential teachers/psychologists/wise elders/human beings in history, Abraham Maslow. Now, with this book, you can. This book puts you in the classroom with Maslow at a seminal moment in history. This is the moment when everything is about to change. Within 10 years, the peace movement, the drug culture, women's liberation, gay liberation, black power and especially the human potential movement will dominate the cultural conversation. You can feel this cultural earthquake about to happen, because, like any great change-maker, Maslow is asking the right questions to students whose minds are ready to open. Maslow's methods differ from other teachers. Rather than lecturing his students, Maslow enlists them in a journey to find themselves: who they REALLY are. There's a visceral sense of change in every class, as Maslow continually prods, questions and challenges his students to go deeper, think more carefully and feel their humanity more profoundly. My deepest gratitude to the publishers of this book. These are still the most vital, transformative questions that we humans can ask of ourselves. This is a book I'll return to again and again.
