Abraham Maslow

Today, I'm going to write about an expert in my field (that is, Psychology): Abraham Maslow.

Maslow was an American psychologist, and is known for was one of the mains exponents of the Humanist Psychology, a school of thought located between the paradigm of the behaviourism and paradigm of the psychoanalysis. This school postulate that the human being haves a basic tendency for search the mental health, through a series of process in the life, like the self-fulfilment, the self-knowledge, and the consciousness of the own potentialities.

In first place, Maslow is famous for was one of the "fathers" or fundadors of the Humanist Psychology, and investigate in this school that I described earlier in the text.

Secondly, his theoretical development more famous is the pyramid of the necessities. This pyramid postulate a hierarchy of the necessities of the human being.

His importance nowdays, in broad strokes, it's all the legacy about this paradigm located between the paradigm of the behaviourism and paradigm of the psychoanalysis. Besides, one of the contributions that more I like, it's his perspective about the creative personality, that in addition, includes a small critique about the actually education.

  

I found out about him because in one of our courses I learn about the Humanist Psychology, and naturally, about one of the fathers of this school: Maslow.

   

"The starry night"

Today, I can choose the thing about I'm will write.

In this time, I will talk you about a painting that I like so much: one of the paintings more famous of Van Gogh, "The starry night", painted after a grave and unexpected attack psychiatric, dominate by horrible hallucinations and suicides tendencies, one year before his death.

In that periode, he started to paint  looking from a window that had protection (bars) for his security.
In the canvas, we can distinguish curve and long lines, and uneven and sharp traces, faithful representatives of the restlessness and tension that it was probably crossing Van Gogh, native distresses of the Dutchman.

In addition, his brushstrokes have something characteristic: they are marked and forts, as if he have had the neecesity to paint, as if the painting had been realized in the deepest ecstasy, in the purest longing of freedom.

I think that Van Gogh used his anguish of a positive form: he choose to paint go beyond the bars of his window, he choose to represent the liberty that, though it was something stormy, he knows that was there, outside.

This painting transmit me a lot of emotions: anguish, because of his stormy swirls, or the feeling of want freedom. For this, I share it with you, because: what sensation cause you "The starry night"?