Who Is Included in Maslow’s Good Society

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ID9057903
AuthorsJared Boot-Haury (0000-0002-0644-5882, Michigan School of Psychology, Farmington Hills, USA, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume64
Issue1
Pages119-123
Publication date2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00221678221145758
OpenAlexW4379648682
LanguageEN
References cited8

This article describes Maslow’s vision of a Good Society and how engrained a humanistically oriented psychological science aimed at creating a Good Society has become in the contemporary practice of humanistic psychologists and psychologists more broadly. Although Maslow’s vision of a humanistically influenced psychology aimed at creating a Good Society has led to progress, it is not without fault. One major limitation of Maslow’s argument for a humanistically oriented psychological science aimed at creating a Good Society is Maslow’s pathologizing views regarding sexually diverse individuals and his contention that their sexual orientation or behaviors make those individuals unhealthy. This limitation is discussed, and current humanistic psychologists are encouraged to draw from Maslow’s vision for a Good Society to make further progress in the field of psychology while recognizing that, as humanistic psychologists, we must neither exclude any group of individuals from a part of a Good Society nor deem those individuals unfit for self-actualization

Argument (complex analysis) · Epistemology · Humanism · Humanistic psychology · Maslow's hierarchy of needs · Political science · Self-Actualization · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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