The self-actualizer seems to constantly renew appreciation of life's basic goods.

A self-actualizer is a person who is living creatively and fully using his or her potentials.

Formerly a cowering dependent, she has suddenly morphed into a supercharged, sexually wired self-actualizer.

American humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow theorized that depression is especially likely to arise when the world precludes a sense of "richness" or "totality" for the self-actualizer.

"I have no emotional attachment to chickens," she says with the authority of a self-actualizer who has been in treatment with the same Central Park West therapist since a time when sessions cost just $25.