Four Needs explains why people think, feel, believe, and do what they do. It is a biologically based psychological theory of human wholeness to clarify driving needs; allowing the increase of individual and social well being through balanced satisfaction.
Needs: Find meaning through internal sensory experience and generate purpose
Form concepts of self and generate identity
Hope, imagine, believe, create
Functions: Form and respond to idealizations
Planning, setting goals
Symbolic communication, including art, music and pictoral language
Needs: Perceive, process, organize, and regulate, external sensory experience.
Make decisions and draw conclusions based on perceptions and experience, driving independence
Objective learning
Communication
Functions: Logic, memory, causality, verbal language, sensory processing, analysis
Needs: Perception and expression of internal sensory experience
To give love
To receive love and approval.
Attachment and belonging
Contribute to groups to cooperatively meet needs
Functions: Bonding, classifying/sorting, non-verbal perception, social modeling, mimicry. Organization and integration of all other needs.
Needs
Physiological sustenance:Nutritive food, clean water and air.
Protection: clothing, shelter, and defense (skills, tools, and tactics.
Movement: activity and dimensional interaction with environment.
Procreation is needed to sustain the species.
Functions:
Voluntary physical movement, digestion, sexual function, physical growth, development, and renewal
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