I recently watched a documentory on the solitary confinement of prisoners in america. The show went through the stay of inmates who were sometimes locked up for years with out being allowed human contact (besides the guards who brought them meals). It was interesting that often these inmates would try to kill themselves, hurt themselves or disobey the guard just to get some attention and human contact. It makes me think that this chart is not completely accurate about the human needs as i once thought it was. It appears that in many cases the psychological needs outwayed the safety needs even survival needs by a fair amount. Although one could argue that the psychological needs were so dismissed that they became a basic need , forgoing safty needs.  The same effect happens to people in general who do not become self-actualized. Those that can not change themselves into what they may consider a better human being often go into depression and basic needs as well as safety needs are bipassed. Again one could argue that the chart is merly an example of the order in which a functioning human works, but as i had mentioned in solitary the pscyhological need became a necesity, so would that be a functional mind. Im interested to hear responses.