Motivation and Personality

MOTIVATION AND PERSONALITY

PREFACE ix
1 . A Psychological Approach to Science 1
2 . Problem Centering vs. Means Centering in Science 11
3 . Preface to Motivation Theory 19
4 . A Theory of Human Motivation 35
5 . The Role of Basic Need Gratification in Psychological Theory 59
6 . The Instinctoid Nature of Basic Needs 77
7 . Higher and Lower Needs 97
8 . Psychopathogenesis and the Theory of Threat 105
9 . Is Destructiveness Instinctoid ? 117
10 . The Expressive Component of Behavior 131
11 . Self-Actualizing People : A Study of Psychological Health 149
12 . Love in Self-Actualizing People 181
13 . Cognition of the Individual and of the Generic 203
14 . Unmotivated and Purposeless Reactions 229
15 . Psychotherapy , Health , and Motivation 241
16 . Normality , Health , and Values 265

Appendix A : Problems Generated by a Positive Approach to Psychology 281

Appendix B : Holistic-Dynamics , Organismic Theory , Syndrome Dynamics 295

BIBLIOGRAPHY 329
INDEX OF NAMES 355
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 360