summarized it by saying that, when forced to live without these values, the self-actualizer develops depression, despair, disgust, alienation, and a degree of cynicism. Maslow hoped that his efforts at describing the self-actualizing person would eventually lead to a periodic table of the kinds of qualities, problems, pathologies, and even solutions characteristic of higher levels of human potential. Over time, he devoted increasing attention, not to his own theory, but to humanistic psychology and the human potential movement. Toward the end of his life, he inaugurated what he called the fourth force in psychology: Freudian and other depth psychologies constituted the first force; Behaviorism was the second force; His own humanism, including the European existentialists, was the third force. The fourth force was the transpersonal psychologies which, taking their cue from eastern philosophies, investigated such things as meditation, and higher levels of consciousness and even Para psychological phenomena. ConclusionWith the research that I have done on Maslow I place myself within his theories as far as my life goes. I have seen that I cant move on to higher levels until I see the lower ones met. When achieved I feel empowered or strength with a sense of accomplishment and ready to attack the next level. I see it as climbing a ladder filled with experiences that in turn help me to guide my own children in speeding their own process to achieve this hierarchy of needs. I find Moslows theories very inspiring, they have helped me to be more open and more understanding of those around me whom I saw as unkind people. In reality they are just in their way in achieving this process of the hierarchy of needs. Sometimes in this process we can feel frustrated in having experienced a sense of ecstasy and now faced with even a greater challenge in the beginning of a new level. Just as Maslows parents were uneducated immigrants from Russia, my own p...
