Brief Biography, Abraham Maslow

     Abraham Harold Maslow was born on 1 Aprik 1908 in Brooklyn, New York, as the eldest of seven brothers. Both parents are uneducated Jew who immigrated from Russia. 

  

     Because really hope their children succeed in the new world, his parents forced Maslow and his siblings study hard in order to achieve success in academics. No wonder childhood and adolescence, Maslow became lone child and spent his days with the book. 

For the sake of the wishes of her parents, first Maslow studied law at City College of New York (CCNY). After three semesters studying there, he moved to Cornell then back to CCNY. He married his cousin,     Bertha Goodman, and this marriage against the wishes of her parents. Maslow and Bertha had two daughters. 

     He and Bertha moved to Wisconsin to get into the University of Wisconsin. This is where his interest in the psychological field began to grow, thus dramatically changing the way academic. A year after graduating, he returned to New York to work with E. L. Thorndike in Coolumbia where he carried out research on human sexuality. 

     He began teaching full time at Brooklyn College. In this period he was hanging out with some European thinkers who immigrated to the United States, particularly to Brooklyn, due to the war that raged there. Among these thinkers were Adler, Fromm, Horney and Gestalt psychologists and Freudian. 

In 1951, Maslow served as chairman of the psychology department at Brandels for 10 years. This is where he met Kurt and began writing his own theoretical works. Here, he also began to develop the concept of humanistic psychology - the concept which for him is much more important than theoretical efforts. 

He spent his retirement in California, until finally he had a heart attack and died on June 8, 1970.

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