[Neurons] New Book Released ---- Self-Actualization Psychology

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From: L. Michael Hall
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                                    Self-Actualization Psychology
                                                    The Psychology of the Bright Side of Human Nature

                                                    L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

                                                    296 pages, paperback, 25 chapters

                                                    Volume IV, Meta-Coaching Series

                                                    $29.00 USD



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Contents:

Self-Actualization Psychology




Preface                                                                                 4

Part I: The Psychology of Self-Actualization                         8

1. Introducing the Psychology                                                  9

2. The Core Idea                                                                     19

3. The Levels of Self-Actualization                                           33

4. The Premises of Maslow                                                      41

5. The Premises of Self-Actualization Psychology                     48

6. The Self-Actualization Model                                                65

7. Maslow and the Role of Meaning                                          84

8. Recovering Meaning: The Missing Element                             97

9. The Growth Model of Self-Actualization                                105

10. Modeling Self-Actualization Psychology                              112

11. The Self-Actualization Matrix                                              124

12. Processes for Unleashing Potentials                                     133

13. Self-Actualize or be Diminished                                           140

14. The Power to Self-Actualize                                                146

15. The Self-Actualizing Life                                                     159

16. Measuring Self-Actualization                                               170

17. Self-Actualization and Peak Experiences                              183

18. Reworking the Needs Hierarchy                                          188

19. The Pyramid's Metamorphosis                                            199

Part II: The Human Potential Movement                               215

20. The First Human Potential Movement                                    216

21. The Collapse of the Human Potential Movement                    223

22. Launching a New Human Potential Movement                       235

Part III: The Applications                                                       246

23. Self-Actualization Therapy                                                   247

24. Communities of Self-Actualization                                       257

25. Facilitating Self-Actualization via Coaching                          272

Self-Actualization Psychology                                                  282

Bibliography                                                                             283

Index                                                                                       291

Author: L. Michael Hall                                                             294








PREFACE





"What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us."

Ralph Waldo Emerson









hen I wrote my first book on self-actualization, Unleashed: A Guide to Your Ultimate Self-Actualization I used Self-Actualization Psychology as my assumptive theory. Yet as I did that, I also made a mistake.


The mistake was that I put too much of the theory in the book. Well, at least I attempted to. In the original text I included five chapters on the heart and essence of Self-Actualization Psychology. I thought it was needed there. Yet my larger goal was to write to a broad general audience. And given that those chapters were more academic, they just did not make the cut. Conversations with several editors made me realize that I needed to eliminate those chapters and to use them for a separate book. And that's how I gave birth to this book.


The book Unleashed focuses on the how of self-actualization. How do we actualize our highest and best? And of course, my inspiration for it all was the vision Abraham Maslow set forth:

"Every baby has possibilities for self-actualization but most get it knocked out of them. I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a human being with dampened and inhibited powers." (Edward Hoffman's biography of Maslow, The right to be human, 1988, p. 174)

What is self-actualization? It is being fully human. It is being an ordinary person with nothing taken away. It is experiencing our innate and fundamental powers in their purity of strength and focus- not dampened or inhibited. How about that? It is getting over, and releasing, anything and everything that interferes with growing to full maturity. It is releasing everything that dampens and inhibits your powers. It is, as Carl Rogers put it, being a "fully functioning human being" or "becoming a person."


This vision of self-actualization by Maslow and Rogers was not about becoming extraordinary. The vision is rather to become everything that you already have the latent potential to become. And that is very different. That's why it is not about adding things as much as it is about reclaiming all that you already have within as your heritage as a human being.


What is Self-Actualization Psychology? It is the kind of psychology that undergirds the unleashing processes which enable us to actualize our highest and best. It is this psychology which provides the theoretical foundations and frameworks for Unleashed. And it is this kind of psychology that speaks about the bright side of human nature -the psychology of healthy men and women.


While researching the background for this book I discovered that Abraham Maslow wanted to write this book. Well, not this particular book. He did want to write a book on Self-Actualization Psychology. He spent his whole life in preparation for it. He created the foundations for it. Then tragically, he died before he could do that. Having studied self-actualizers from the 1940s through the 1960s, Maslow wrote five primary books about self-actualization. As a tremendous pioneer on the bright-side of human nature, Maslow caught a vision of studying and detailing the characteristics of people at their best, fully-functioning, and making real their highest possibilities.


That's the heart and soul of Self-Actualization Psychology. And for anyone working with psychologically healthy people, this is the kind of psychology that's needed today more than ever. It is for coaches, trainers, consultants, leaders, managers, business owners, marketers, entrepreneurs, sales people, parents, teachers, etc. It is the kind of psychology that's needed for changing our world. It is needed for self-actualizing companies, businesses, groups, churches, and countries. And that's why this book is also in the series of Meta-Coaching-this is also the Psychology of Self-Actualization Coaching.


Self-Actualization Psychology radically departs from traditional psychology. As a paradigm shift, it will be a shock to those trained in abnormal psychology who have spent years learning about human nature based on studying neurotics, people suffering from parenting errors, traumas, etc.


The focus in Self-Actualization Psychology shifts to a new concern. Its focus is on how good life, society, and business human nature allows us. It focuses on how to be our best and to bring out the best in others. It is based on a belief in the goodness of human nature, and that every form of human "evil" is a derived from frustrating human nature (deficiency) or hurting it conceptually (through distorting or diminishing our nature).


The foundations for Self-Actualization Psychology arose in the middle of the twentieth century as the third force in psychology after Behaviorism (Learning theory) as the first force and Psychoanalysis as the second force. Self-Actualization Psychology arose to offer corrections to these earlier psychologies. It is the psychology that inspired the movement that Maslow, Rogers, and many others created-the Human Potential Movement. 


This book takes a new look at the first Human Potential Movement to explore what it was and what happened to it. After exploring the collapse of the first movement, I make a case for the need to launch a new twenty-first century movement. My intention is to pick up where Maslow left off and launch a new Human Potential Movement for explicitly focusing on actualizing human potentials.


Also within this book I have presented an exposition of a model of Self-Actualization. I've written one chapter on the process of modeling to identify what's involved in the creating of new models and what was missing in the original models by Maslow. In another chapter, I describe how I have extended the self-actualization models of Maslow to actualize his work and make explicit how self-actualization works.


If Self-Actualization Psychology offers a new kind of psychology and a new discipline that's focused on the self-actualizing process itself, then who will be the persons presenting and facilitating this kind of psychology? To address that, I've written a chapter on the emerging field of coaching and how its focus on psychologically healthy people makes it an excellent discipline for this kind of psychology. In other words, as coaches work with the population who has either graduated from therapy or who never needed it-they need a new kind of psychology, one that maps how healthy people actualize their best skills and expressions.


The paradigm shift that Maslow created exposed the inadequacy of the old theories of human motivation. He revolutionized psychology as he showed the biological basis of our higher needs, that our self-actualization drives originated in our instinctoid impulses. This means that it is human nature to need work to be meaningful, to be creative, to live in a world were we strive for fairness and justice, to want order, beauty, significance, preferring to do things well, etc.


If you want a developmental psychology that takes people to ever new and ever higher levels of experience and development, then Self-Actualization Psychology explores the farther reaches of human nature and the tools for actualizing generative change. 


In this new Neuro-Semantic approach to self-actualization, we begin by revisiting the genius of Abraham Maslow. That will then allow us to stand firmly on his shoulders and the shoulders of the other giants who first explored the bright side of human nature. And that will allow us to see farther, to extend and expand their models, and to begin to push the boundaries of where we have mapped the unleashing of human possibilities and potentials.



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