Third Force: The Psychology of Abraham Maslow, The

By Goble, Frank
Simon & Schuster, 1976, Mass Market Paperback, 224 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 0671421743

This is the first book to present Maslow's theories to the layman.

In addition to explaining the new philosophy of man, it contains a large section of case studies, showing the application of Third Force theories to business and industry, psychotherapy, community life, and schools.

Third Force Psychology is the name Dr. Maslow gave to the movement he fathered, "a serious and rapidly growing movement that is challenging the most basic precepts on which the study of man has been based for a century." It rejects Freud's dictatorship of the subconscious and the mechanistic world of the Behaviorists. In their stead, it proposes a new philosophy of man, an optimistic human awareness that sets man free to be man, to create and grow, to control his choices and goals. It includes chapters on Mental Health, Crime, Education and Business.