Some Hypotheses Regarding Psychological Health and Political-Economic Attitudes

Abstract

A. H. MASLOW (1954), among others, has for some time been specu-lating with the whole idea of Eupsychia-a psychological Utopia. Although Utopia-building is out of style, the Eupsychia that Maslow deals with is not an ideal political-social-economic state or "republic," for that matter. Instead of describing the "ought to be " or "should be, " Maslow (1954, p. 350) asks, "What kind of culture would evolve if 1,000 healthy families migrated to some deserted land where they could work out their own destiny as they pleased?" Thus, instead of describing the ideal culture and social value system that would be best for mankind the process is reversed by trying to speculate on the culture and value systems that would be created by psychologically healthy people. Thus, the tenor of this paper will be an attempt to examine political-economic value systems as they exist now, and to see if they have any hints as to which direction the psychologically healthy individual might

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