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Abraham Maslow was born in 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Jewish parents, he was a
Psychology student at the University of Wisconsin. All his studies and training were in the field of
During the period from 1937 to 1951 he was a professor at Brooklyn College of New York University.
In 1943 he presented his best-known theory, “Maslow's Pyramid” or “Hierarchy of Human Needs”,
developed in his work “A Theory of Human Motivation”. In this theory, Maslow exposed the main
human needs, divided into different categories arranged hierarchically and presented forming a
pyramid.
Abraham Maslow died in 1970 in Menlo Park, California, from an acute myocardial infarction.
Abraham Maslow is one of the most recognized psychologists in the humanist movement, for this
reason he will have a holistic vision of the person, focused on reaching their maximum potential. It
presents and develops a theory based on human needs organized in a hierarchy, presenting from
the most basic, necessary to be able to live, to the most complex, self-realization, a need to which
In order to reach the need at the top of the pyramid (upper), it will be necessary to satisfy the majority
of the needs at the base. This theory, called Maslow's Pyramid, although it has received criticism
contrary to the order of needs or the existence of hierarchy, continues to be one of the most studied