The Self-Actualization Dilemma

or Maslow vs. Aristotle

Maslow and the pyramid he never drew

Maslow’s pyramid of needs is one of the most fetishized, romanticized concepts in psychology. This is despite the fact that none of Maslow’s published works included a visual representation of the hierarchy. The pyramidal diagram illustrating the Maslow needs hierarchy may have been created by a psychology textbook publisher…