Toward a Psychology of Being

A much better term is “self actualization”as I have used it. It stresses “full-humanness,” the development of the biologically based nature of man, and therefore is (empirically) normative for the whole species rather than for particular times and places, i.e., it is less culturally relative. It conforms to biological destiny, rather than to historically-arbitrary, culturally-local value-models as the terms “health”and “illness”often do. It also has empirical content and operational meaning.