This text draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud and other important thinkers to offer a guide to the ideas and techniques of existential psychology. It pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation and to the search for stability in an age of anxiety.
Believing that creativity is central to our being, May outlines the limits to what we know and do not know about creativity. He links the element of courage to creativity to reveal the process of discovery in which a person generates new forms and patterns that build new social systems.
Already a standard work for professional councellors, this revised edition is now accessible to the layman and others working in the caring professions.
In this revised edition, Rollo May expounds the theory that much of human behaviour is motivated by a profound underlying sense of anxiety. He challenges the idea that mental health means living without anxiety.
This reissue discusses the loss of our personal identity in the contemporary world, the sources of our anxiety, the scope of psychotherapy, and the ultimate paradox of freedom and responsibility.
The heart of man's dilemma, according to the author, is the failure to understand the real meaning of love and will, their source and interrelation. Bringing fresh insight to these concepts, this work shows how we can attain a deeper consciousness.
This study defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change, and innocence as the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtue. From these concepts, the author of this book suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil.
This work examines the tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny.