This book is a continuation of my Inspiration and Personality, published in 1954. It had been constructed in a comparable way, that is, by performing one piece at a time of the bigger theoretical structure. It is a predecessor to function yet to be done toward the construction of a thorough, organized and empirically structured general psychology and philosophy which include both the depths as well as the levels of human character. The last chapter is to some extent a program for this future work, and serves as a about Toward a Psychology of Being bridge to it. It really is a first try to integrate the ‘health-and-growth mindset’ with psychopathology and psychoanalytic dynamics, the powerful with the holistic,

Becoming with Getting, good with evil, positive with negative. Phrased in yet another way, it is an attempt to construct on the overall psychoanalytic base and on the scientific-positivistic base of experimental mindset, the Eupsychian, B-psychological and metamotivational superstructure which these two systems lack, going beyond their limits. It is very difficult, I have found, to connect to others my simultaneous respect for and impatience with these two comprehensive psychologies. More and more people insist on being either pro-Freudian or anti-Freudian, pro-scientific-psychology or anti-scientific-psychology, etc. In my opinion all such loyalty-positions are ridiculous. Our job is normally to integrate these various truths into the entire truth, that ought to be our only loyalty.