He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 1, 1908, and died in Palo Alto, California, on June 8, 1970.
Known as one of the founders and main exponents of humanistic psychology, a psychological current that postulates the existence of a basic human tendency towards mental health, which would manifest itself as a series of processes of search for self-actualization and self-actualization. His position is usually classified in psychology as a "third force", and is theoretically and technically between the paradigms of behaviorism and psychoanalysis.
American psychologist, known for his theory of the hierarchy of human needs and his humanistic approach to psychology. His writings have greatly influenced the field of psychology and personal development.
His latest works also define him as a pioneer of humanistic psychology. Maslow's best-known theoretical development is the pyramid of needs, a model that establishes a hierarchy of human needs, in which the satisfaction of the most basic or subordinate needs gives rise to the successive generation of higher or superordinate needs. However, according to Maslow, only those unmet needs generate an alteration in behavior since a supplied need does not in itself generate any effect. Another fundamental principle of his theory is the one that suggests that the only needs that are born with the individual are those of the base, that is, the physiological needs and the others arise from these needs once they have already been met.