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- May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the reader away from destructive ways to positive ways of dealing with anxiety. He convincingly proposes that anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur.
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Jan 1, 1977 · From the results, May shows how anxiety underlies fear, inner conflict as the source of anxiety, how rejection by parents relates to anxiety, and how a cleavage between expectations and reality distinguish normal and neurotic anxiety.
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May 17, 2018 · In this article, we will explore how anxiety works, its purposes and the differences between healthy and unhealthy anxiety. What exactly is anxiety? Rollo May: “anxiety is the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value that an individual holds essential to his existence as a personality.
In his groundbreaking work, "The Meaning of Anxiety," renowned psychologist Rollo May delves into the depths of our universal human experience and sheds light on the often misunderstood emotion of anxiety. May challenges the notion that anxiety is merely a dreaded feeling to be avoided, asserting instead that it is a fundamental aspect of our ...
In defining anxiety, May distinguished between anxiety and fear, and between normal anxiety and neurotic anxiety. According to May, “anxiety is the apprehension cued off by a threat to some value which the individual holds essential to his existence as a personality” (pg. 191; May, 1950).
Reviews the book, The meaning of anxiety by Rollo May (1950). The author undertook to review critically both the theoretical and the empirical studies of anxiety and to synthesize them into a comprehensive framework that would take account of biological, psychological and cultural dimensions of anxiety.
- Eugenia Hanfmann
- 1951
Abstract. Reviews the book, The meaning of anxiety by Rollo May (1950). The core of the present volume is a series of chapters that summarize and interpret views of anxiety as seen philosophically, biologically, psychologically, and culturally. As instructional material, May's book has fine values.
Dr. May challenges the idea that mental health means living without anxiety, and he explores anxiety's potential for self-realization as well as ways to avoid its destructive...
