Abraham Maslow researched and came up with his own hierarchy of needs that are now known across all fronts in psychology. It’s important to understand these needs because they are needs of our own species – a humanistic psychology theory surrounding our needs as humans. It’s also important to know the man behind the hierarchy to further our understanding.
Abraham Maslow was a Brooklyn, New York native; while his parents were “…uneducated Jewish immigrants from Russia” (Boeree). He studied law at City College of New York and then transferred to Cornell, then back to City College of New York. He married and had two daughters. Then, he moved to Wisconsin with his family and attended the university of Wisconsin. He then became interested in psychology and worked with Harry Harlow. After years, he received his PhD in psychology and returned to New York to work with E. L. Thorndike, where he did research on human sexuality. He then served as the chair of psychology department at Brandeis and “…began his crusade for a humanistic psychology – something untimely more important to him than his own theorizing” (Boeree).
