Maslow's Holistic Psychology and Humanistic Religion
Keywords:
Holistic Theory of Human Nature, Deficiency Needs and Growth Needs, Hierarchy of Needs, Self-Actualization, Peak-Experiences as the Apex of Growth, Naturalistic Faith or Humanistic Religion, Drawbacks of Traditional Religions, Intrinsic Conscience and GuiltAbstract
One approach to the contributions of various systems of psycho- logy toward human growth is to study them from the perspectives of reductionism which is linked with mechanism, and of holism. Reduc- tionism, in psychology, explains human nature and behaviour in elementalistic terms. Holism, on the other hand, holds that there is an essential principle in every person, which synthesizes him or her as a unified whole.
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Maslow's Holistic Psychology and Humanistic Religion 213.
