Originally from Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation

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I was disappointed in 1970 when I arrived at Brandeis University for my freshman year to learn that Prof. Abraham Maslow had passed away a few months earlier.

Maslow had served on the Brandeis faculty from 1951 to 1969 before he moved to Menlo Park, Calif., after suffering an almost fatal heart attack in 1967. So I learned about the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs, and Humanistic Psychology, a field he founded, from other excellent professors rather than the great thinker himself.

Despite outcries from the cynics trapped in the positive law dynamics of conflict resolution, the more experience I gain as a mediator, the more committed I became to the power of positive thinking, pro-social behavior, and personality traits.