October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
10h 46m
English
In the free Western world of the 1950s, a post-war zeitgeist embraced a new sense of optimism, self-responsibility and focus on the future. Over the next three decades, these trends showed up in psychology, business, sport, culture, politics and parenting.
The twentieth century saw rapid developments in the field of psychology. Until the 1940s, the focus was on identifying problems and fixing them, notably through the work of Freud and Jung. A major shift then occurred through the work of psychologists such as Abraham Maslow and Fritz Perls.
Maslow’s widely publicized ‘hierarchy of needs’ (1968), shown on the ...
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