Abstract
Abraham Maslow was and remains arguably one of the most important and influential figures in both Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology circles. This paper explores and evaluates the emphasis placed by Maslow on the central role that Taoism could/should play in the transformation of both Psychology and the scientific method – from a ‘controlling science’ to a ‘Taoistic science’.During this same period, Joseph Needham (1954-1994) had begun his encyclopedic ‘Science and Civilisation in China’ series, which consistently argued that Taoism had, historically, played a central role in Chinese scientific thought and innovation. Both Maslow and Needham had emphasised the Taoist concept of Wu Wei(non-interference) as being integral to the scientific method.I will also consider the extent to which Maslow’s vision has been realised in more recent approaches and debates concerning research methods and validity in Transpersonal Psychology.
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