‘What a masterpiece! Maslow 2.0 – a must-read. I loved it!’ ANGELA DUCKWORTH
‘This is the book we’ve all been waiting for’ SUSAN CAIN
‘Transcend […] shows us how we can all achieve the kind of life we aspire to’ LORI GOTTLIEB
‘A major advance in psychology’ AARON T. BECK
‘Scott Barry Kaufman is one of my favorite thinkers about the psychology of getting better and growing as a person’ RYAN HOLIDAY
Realise your full potential and live your most creative life.
When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow’s unfinished theory of transcendence, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In Transcend, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unravelling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating them with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well-lived.
Kaufman’s new hierarchy of needs provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfilment – not by striving for money, success, or happiness, but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called ‘self-actualization’. Using this, Transcend reveals a level of human potential that connects us not only to our highest creative potential, but also to one another.
With never-before-published insights and research findings, along with exercises and opportunities to gain insight into your own unique personality, this empowering book is a manual for self-analysis, connecting you not only to your highest potential but also to the rest of humanity.
‘This is the book we’ve all been waiting for’ SUSAN CAIN
‘Transcend […] shows us how we can all achieve the kind of life we aspire to’ LORI GOTTLIEB
‘A major advance in psychology’ AARON T. BECK
‘Scott Barry Kaufman is one of my favorite thinkers about the psychology of getting better and growing as a person’ RYAN HOLIDAY
Realise your full potential and live your most creative life.
When psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman first discovered Maslow’s unfinished theory of transcendence, he felt a deep resonance with his own work and life. In Transcend, Kaufman picks up where Maslow left off, unravelling the mysteries of his unfinished theory, and integrating them with the latest research on attachment, connection, creativity, love, purpose and other building blocks of a life well-lived.
Kaufman’s new hierarchy of needs provides a roadmap for finding purpose and fulfilment – not by striving for money, success, or happiness, but by becoming the best version of ourselves, or what Maslow called ‘self-actualization’. Using this, Transcend reveals a level of human potential that connects us not only to our highest creative potential, but also to one another.
With never-before-published insights and research findings, along with exercises and opportunities to gain insight into your own unique personality, this empowering book is a manual for self-analysis, connecting you not only to your highest potential but also to the rest of humanity.
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Reviews
What a masterpiece! Maslow 2.0-a must-read for anyone who wants to understand what Maslow meant by self-transcendence. Part biography, part treatise, part how-to guide . . . I loved it!
This is the book we've all been waiting for - nothing less than a breathtaking new psychology of humanity. Kaufman will show you how to live your life to the fullest, and in the service of others - all at the same time.
The concept of self-actualization and the transcendent values, which include justice, beauty, meaningfulness, and wholeness, provide a blueprint for a better world. This very well-written volume not only captures Maslow's work but infuses it with the spirit of inspiration. This book is a major advance in psychology.
As a pioneer of humanistic psychology, Maslow is frequently referenced but rarely understood. Scott Barry Kaufman is here to change that. He does a first-rate job restoring the classic pyramid based on Maslow's own revisions and updating self-actualization in light of contemporary science.
In this book Kaufman studies the legacy of Abraham Maslow's life's work in humanistic psychology and expands on this with his own insights and studies. The book gives us a path to self-actualization, to becoming the best person we can possibly become. In the process we discover we do this connected to others and all reality.
Transcend is rich, deep, and brilliant, a pleasure to read. Scott Barry Kaufman is the new generation's leading voice in humanistic psychology, a modern-day Abraham Maslow. Updating Maslow's hierarchy of needs with modern psychology research, Transcend will help readers embark upon a journey to the upper reaches of their potential.
This splendid book is a twofer. It's a retelling of the life of Abraham Maslow woven through an insightful updating of Maslow's theory.
Transcend is a wonderful revival and update of a beloved classic psychological model, as well as a loving ode to its originator. A brilliant assemblage of our current understanding of psychological well-being.
Mastery in whatever field is an important goal to aspire to, but in these times, when people are experiencing depression and emptiness at an epidemic level, transcendence is an even more critical goal. Scott Barry Kaufman manages to integrate more than seventy-five years of research on the subject to show that the only way to fully self-actualize is, paradoxically, by getting outside of one's self. This is one of the best books on human potential I've ever read.
In this ambitious work, Scott Barry Kaufman not only excavates the unfinished elements of Maslow's famous hierarchy of needs, but updates and extends it with the latest science. Transcend is a compass for a life well lived.
Scott Barry Kaufman is one of my favorite thinkers about the psychology of getting better and growing as a person.
Both personal and universal, deep and engaging, easy to follow and mind-shifting, Transcend gives us a new understanding of Maslow's famous self-actualization model and shows us how we can all achieve the kind of life we aspire to.
In an age focused on materialism and self-obsession, Kaufman boldly addresses the science of our deepest, most unanswered needs: connection, meaning, love, transcendence, and self-realization. A revolutionary book destined to become a classic.
Many of the substantive issues humanistic psychology fought for in the middle part of the last century are now at the very core of modern psychology, regardless of your approach or orientation. It is especially timely to revisit the work of one of the greatest humanists of all time, Abraham Maslow, and to update his insights based on the half a century of data that have accumulated since his death. Scott Barry Kaufman has done just that in this wide-ranging and delightful book.
In this wise, creative, surprising, and exceedingly humane book, Scott Barry Kaufman provides a hierarchy of needs for the modern world, blending the insights of humanistic psychology with the finding of cutting-edge science.
Scott Barry Kaufman revivifies the wisdom of humanistic psychology for a new millennium. He does it with evidence and discernment, without turning the world into a nail.
Synthesizing Maslow's wisdom with modern research, Scott Barry Kaufman takes our understanding of the good life to higher planes. Maslow would have been proud!
There are many books about happiness. There are fewer about living a good life-not a fixed state of being, but an ongoing process that encourages creativity, challenge, and meaning. Transcend is such a book: original, grounded in modern research, and thoroughly practical.
Drawing on a vast range of source material, Kaufman has singlehandedly helped to reposition Maslow and humanistic psychology from the periphery to the center of mainstream psychological inquiry. A scientifically grounded, splendidly accessible road map for the spiritual and philosophical uplift of our field.
Reading Transcend would bring a broad smile to Maslow's face and maybe even a shout of 'Someone finally gets it.' Often he spoke in our seminars at Brandeis of his frustration that so few understood his work. Scott Barry Kaufman not only shows a rare and profound understanding of Maslow's ideas but, for the first time in fifty years, expands our knowledge of Maslow's core concepts. This book is worthy of being in every thinking person's library and being read more than once.
This is one of the most comprehensive books on what psychology has to say about the path to personal fulfillment. I walked away with a new, sophisticated lens for viewing the motivations behind my actions. I suspect readers will be equally enlightened.
With wisdom from many fields, and paths and principles to live, this book will enable you to rise to the greatest challenge of our times: to arrive at a new sense of ourselves that is kinder, more inclusive, and oriented to creating a better world. This is a profoundly important and timely book.