Comentario a “Abraham Maslow – Founder of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology”, de Vikki Brock, MCC
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Comment by Leonardo Ravier on 22 March 2008:

“A Theory of Human Motivation” (Maslow, 1943) is more GRANDIOSE and HUMBLE than the simple pyramidal representation of needs.

Many people ignore that Maslow did not illustrate the hierarchy of needs with a pyramid. In fact, Maslow did not illustrated his theory, because when he talks about “hierarchy” he does not refer to a rigid concept (like a pyramid), rather as something dynamic and flexible. Therefore, the pyramid, does not correctly represent correctly his theory.

Maslow wrote this theory in “A Theory of Human Motivation (1943), originally Published in Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm

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