Self-Actualization

• CRITERIA FOR SELF-ACTUALIZATION

  • Were free from psychopathology
  • Had progressed through the hierarchy of need
  • Embraced the Being-values
  • Metaneeds: Ultimate level of needs
  • Metamotivation: Motives of the self-actualizers
  • “Full use of talents, capacities, and potentialities”
• Being Values - Described as eternal verities.

  • Are embraced by the selfactualizing people
  • Leads to existential illness when not met
  • Deprivation results in metapathology (lack of a meaningful philosophy of life)
• Being-values: Humor, autonomy, truth, goodness, wholeness, beauty, aliveness, uniqueness, perfection, completion, justice, simplicity, totality, effortlessness.
• Self-actualizing people are capable of both giving and receiving love and are no longer motivated by the kind of deficiency love (D-love) common to other people.
• Self-actualizing people are capable of B-love, that is, love for the essence or “Being” of the other (is mutually felt and shared and not motivated by a deficiency or incompleteness within the lover).