Correlation of "self-fulfillment", "self-actualization" and "acme" concepts

The article deals with the theories of personality developed by the foreign scholars, as well as some ideas of humanistic psychology about the problems of self-fulfillment. The paper reviews researchers' views on the origin of self-fulfillment, conditions and mechanisms preventing or contributing to its achievement. The author justifies introduction of the "acme" concept as a complex phenomenon associated with the achievement of the peak of personal development and proves its connection with the "self-fulfillment" term.