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Humanistic psychologists believe that the basic problem in life is to choose values that are right for the individual. People need to resist the tendency to accept society’s values automatically, and they need to establish their own identities. According to Maslow, “the average normal’ ‘well-adjusted’ person often hasn’t even the slightest idea of what he is, of what he wants, of what his own opinions are.

(Maslow 1956 i Hogan & Smither: Personality: theories and applications, pp. 298)