Maslow

Maslow

A little about Maslows history

Abraham and his wife Bertha
    Born April 1st,1908 in Brooklyn,New York Abraham was the oldest of seven children. He presuded law but then graduated at the University of Wilsconin in the feild of psychology. Soon after he married his first cousin Bertha Goodman against his parents will, and had two daughters together. Maslow received his BA in 1930, his MA in 1931,and his phD in 1934 all in psychology from the University of Winconsin. After this he went back to New York to work with E.L Thorndike at Columbia where Abraham became intruiged in research on human sexuality. In his later life he served as the chair of the psychology department at Brandeis from 1951 untill 1969 where him and Kurt Goldstein developed Maslows famous book  The Organism (1934).  Maslow died on June 8th,1970 of a heart attack after years of ill health.

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