H.G. Wells, Maslow, and the Peak-Experience
Briefly

from Psychology Today3 weeks ago
"What can you do if you're thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss-absolute bliss-as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon?" asked Katherine Mansfield in her memorable story Bliss.
Psychology Todayhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-peak-experience/202412/hg-wells-maslow-and-the-peak-experience
Maslow's concept of peak-experience remains one of his most important and enduring formulations, becoming the foundation for his entire system of humanistic psychology.
Psychology Todayhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-peak-experience/202412/hg-wells-maslow-and-the-peak-experience
As Maslow's biographer, I've found no evidence that Mansfield's widely read stories influenced his founding of humanistic psychology-but an even more popular British writer may well have done so: namely, H.G. Wells.
Psychology Todayhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-peak-experience/202412/hg-wells-maslow-and-the-peak-experience
Maslow even asserted that sci-fi was the only literary genre interested in new ideas about humanity-especially its strengths and future capabilities.
Psychology Todayhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-peak-experience/202412/hg-wells-maslow-and-the-peak-experience
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