On Self-Actualization: a Transambivalent Examination of a Focal Theme in Maslow's Psychology

TLDR: Brewster Smith as discussed by the authors is a personality-and-social psychologist who has long sought to contribute to a psychology that is both scientific and humamstic, focusing on the development of fully functioning people.

Abstract: BREWSTER SMITH began his education at Reed and Stanford, and received his PhD at Harvard in the then-new Department of Social Relations. His socialization at Harvard drew upon the Id, Ego, and Super-ego of prewar Harvard psychology: Murray, Allport, and Boring. After the war he collaborated with Jerome Bruner and Robert White on Opinions and Personahtv (1956). He has taught at Vassar, NYU, Berkeley, and Chicago, served with the Social Science Research Council, and now is Professor of Psychology and Vice Chancellor for Social Sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz. As a personality-and-social psychologist, he has long sought to contribute to a psychology that is both scientific and humamstic. Studies of Peace Corps teachers and of dissident youth have focused his concern with the development of fully functioning people. Some of his writings are collected m Social Psvchologv and Human Values.