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Mar 25, 2010 · English. Includes bibliography. The emergence of existential psychology / Rollo May--Existential psychology: what's in it for us? / Abraham H. Maslow--Death: relevant variable in psychology / Herman Feifel--Existential bases of psychotherapy / Rollo May--Two divergent trends / Carl R. Rogers--Comment on earlier chapters / Gordon W. Allport--A ...
Sep 30, 2009 · The existential psychologist Rollo May reacted to this trend in his work and concluded that psychotherapy is in crisis largely due to its reliance on gimmicks (Schneider, Galvin, & Serlin,...
Rollo May (1909-1994) introduced existentialism to American psychologists, and has remained the best known proponent of this approach in America. Trained in a fairly traditional format as a psychoanalyst, May considered the detachment with which psychoanalysts approached their patients as a violation of social ethics.
Rollo May is the best known American existential psychologist. Much of his thinking can be understood by reading about existentialism in general, and the overlap between his ideas and the ideas of Ludwig Binswanger is great.
Theoretically it seeks a new balance between process and content aspects and between not-knowing and research. In this chapter we introduce experiential-existential psychotherapy, its unique position in the field of existential and experiential therapies, and its future challenges. Download Free PDF. View PDF.
- Kirk Schneider
According to Rollo May, existential psychology strives to under-stand human beings in their world and the capacities they bring to therapy. Essentially, therapists guide clients to become larger in their use of their capacities and aid them to discover newer approaches for engaging life problems (May, Angel, & Ellenberger, 1958).
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Nov 5, 2015 · This article explores the implications of Rollo May’s thought for effective psychotherapy, therapy that does not content itself with simply managing symptoms but touches the root causes of the many dilemmas clients bring with them as their “presenting problems.”
