A statement on self-actualisation and data. Applications are made to the theories and science of personality, psychotherapy, personal growth and general psychology.

Includes indexes.

Influence of Abraham Maslow / Robert Frager -- Motivation theory: Preface to motivation theory -- Theory of human motivation -- Gratification of basic needs -- Instinct theory reexamined --Hierarchy of needs -- Unmotivated behavior -- Psychopathology and normality: Origins of pathology -- Is destructiveness instinctive? -- Psychotherapy as good human relationships -- Approaches to normality and health -- Self-actualization: Self-actualizing people : a study of psychological health -- Love in self-actualizing people -- Creativity in self-actualizing people -- Methodologies for a human science: Questions for a new psychology -- Psychological approach to science -- Means centering versus problem centering -- Stereotyping versus true cognition -- A holistic approach to psychology -- References -- The rich harvest of Abraham Maslow / Ruth Cox -- Citation review of Motivation and Personality -- Bibliography and selected readings -- Bibliography of the writings of Abraham Maslow -- Name index -- Subject index.