Self Fulfillment
<p><b >Self-actualization</b> is a term that has been used in various <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology" >psychology</a> theories, often in slightly different ways. </p>
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The term was originally introduced by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organismic_theory" title="Organismic theory" >organismic theorist</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Goldstein" title="Kurt Goldstein" >Kurt Goldstein</a> for the motive to realize one's full potential. In his view, it is the organism's master motive, the only real motive: "the tendency to actualize itself as fully as possible is the basic drive...the drive of self-actualization."<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup> </p>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers" title="Carl Rogers" >Carl Rogers</a> similarly wrote of "the curative force in psychotherapy - <i >man's tendency to actualize himself, to become his potentialities</i>...to express and activate all the capacities of the organism."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization#cite_note-1" >[2]</a></sup> </p>
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However, the concept was brought most fully to prominence in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow" title="Abraham Maslow" >Abraham Maslow</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_needs" title="Hierarchy of needs" class="mw-redirect" >hierarchy of needs</a> theory as the final level of psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled and the "actualization" of the full personal potential takes place.</p>