MASLOW, AH; The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

pg 193, chapter 13: "Goals and Implications of Humanistic Education"
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The next question is, are these values [...] inherent in the
organism, just as the need for love or vitamin D are inherent in
the organism?  If you eliminate all vitamin D from your diet,
you will become sick.  We can call love a need for the same
reason. If you take away all love from your children, it can
kill them. Hospital staffs have learned that unloved babies die
early from colds. Do we need truth the same way?  I find that if
I am deprived of truth, I come down with a peculiar kind of
sickness -- I become paranoid, mistrusting everybody and trying
to look behind everything, searching for hidden meanings to
every event.  This sort of chronic mistrustfulness is certainly
a psychological disease.  So I would say that being deprived of
truth results in a pathology - a metapathology. A metapathology
is the illness which results in being deprived of a Being-Value.

The deprivation of beauty can cause illness. People who are
aesthetically very sensitive become depressed and uncomfortable
in ugly surroundings.  It probably affects their menstruation,
gives them headaches, etc.

I performed a series of experiments on beautiful and ugly
surroundings to prove this point. When subjects saw pictures of
faces to be judged in an ugly room, they viewed the people as
being psychotic, paranoid, or dangerous, indicating that faces
and presumably human beings look bad in ugly surroundings. How
much the ugliness affects you depends on your sensitivity and
the ease with which you can turn your attention away from the
obnoxious stimuli. To carry the point further, living in an
unpleasant environment with nasty people is a pathological
force.  If you choose beautiful and decent people to spend your
time with, you will find that you feel better and more uplifted.
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