With all respect I know who Maslow is, I know his qualifications, and I know nothing about yours. Why should your opinions even matter with this subject?
2025-11-05 13:48:44
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kittywhiskers :
in my psychology course we were just asked to consider that people spending exorbitant amount of time and energy on finding food and shelter might not have the energy time or resources to pursue creativity atc. but that all people were capable of it which I guess might be a better way of viewing the hierarchy of needs more as the ease with which you can pursue self actualization
2025-11-05 15:32:04
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BearfootForager :
when I was in psych, I came to similar perspectives and understanding of Maslow's work. I generally agree with the concept but it's a hierarchy of needs, not achievement or social order. I need food, water and shelter every day. but I can also experience self actualization within the moments of struggling and going without, tho it is easier to focus on self reflection when I'm not having to struggle for survival. I agree more with the indigenous sources that arrange these same needs more as a circle or web rather than a pyramid. none of these needs are more important than the other, we need food and love. it's more a matter of practing self development than being a mountain to climb.
2025-11-07 16:28:53
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Raw Roots Turmeric :
Idk but I’m w u
2025-11-05 14:16:38
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mister bapple :
i think trauma made me self actualize a lot faster than peers who had their needs met
2025-11-05 16:49:12
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bethechangeyouwanttosee1 :
Maslow stole the idea from the Blackfoot and inverted it. Self actualization is first and other needs were meant to be maintained by community. He inserted capitalistic and colonialistic ideolgy into it and bastardised it.
2025-11-08 10:27:01
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Rachele Moresi :
Maslow always stuck me as a how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat kinda guy
2025-11-05 15:46:32
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surekel :
Maslow colonised his hierarchy of needs to explain how society existed pre colonisation
2025-11-07 02:26:30
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🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤟Ali Als 🐈⬛🐈🧶 :
Did he say people weren't capable of higher thought if they're basic needs weren't met?
2025-11-05 19:44:37
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Lindsay♾️🌈😻 :
In mental health, what you are saying has also resulted in clinicians not being realistic about client goals and access to resources. The blame is placed on the client for not meeting for therapy, yet their therapy slot is when the food bank is open.
2025-11-06 01:44:07
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daeseregruin :
I've covered maslow as part of my business studies degree, and I had to dig to find out that actually Maslow took (and corrupted) the teachings if the blackfoot tribe and then published it as a phycology theory. Later it was taken and applied to business, which is never what it was for in any incarnation
2025-11-05 14:55:08
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M.C.Lorbiecke/Author :
You might be interested to know that Abraham Maslow was influenced by the worldview of the Blackfoot (Siksika) people of southern Alberta, Canada, and that his work did not acknowledge all of that influence — however, their premise was not that self-actualization was not the pinnacle, but the foundation.
✅ What the sources do say
In the article “Reconsidering Maslow and the hierarchy of needs from a First Nations’ perspective” (Bear Chief-Oom Kapisi, Choate & Lindstrom, 2022) the authors write that “there have … been reports that Maslow’s work fails to give due credit to the Blackfoot peoples of Southern Alberta for their seminal contribution to the hierarchy of needs.”
In “Indigenous Self-Actualization Is Communal” (Psychology Today) it is noted that Maslow spent time with the Blackfoot and “organized what he learned into his hierarchy of needs, getting it wrong — putting actualization after safety and other needs. For the Blackfoot, self-actualization is the foundation for the rest.”
A more activist-type article states: “While extremely popular within Western Humanistic Psychology, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs was stolen from the Blackfoot Nation.”
⚠️What isn’t clearly supported
The equitable academic consensus does not state “Maslow stole the idea” in the sense of documented plagiarism; in fact one review notes: “there is nothing in these writings to suggest he borrowed or stole ideas for his hierarchy of needs.”
The idea that Maslow reversed the hierarchy (i.e., took a Blackfoot ordering and flipped it) is presented in some commentary and non-peer reviewed writings (e.g., the LinkedIn article: “The Blackfoot hierarchy is reversed … Self-actualisation is not the pinnacle — it’s the foundation.”) But this appears as an interpretive critique rather than a documented statement by Maslow himself that he deliberately inverted an Indigenous model.
Ergo, Maslow was influenced by his anthropological observation of the Blackfoot people.
Yes: Indigenous scholars argue his model and ordering.
2025-11-05 14:03:24
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Ash :
Okay, fair enough. I can see why you’d say “fuck Maslow hierarchy of needs”, it really piegon holes people into what they can and cannot do based on their needs being met. And, one could argue that Maslow self actualization is actually impossible, if he believed that it is a person living up to their full potential, because that is always changing as we change. Actually, you are right, Fuck Maslow. And it is important to acknowledge that having one’s needs met does make it easier to move forward, though not impossible and it seems Maslow is implying.
2025-11-05 17:03:13
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