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Rollo May was born April 21, 1909, in Ada, Ohio. His childhood was not particularly pleasant: His parents didn’t get along and eventually divorced, and his sister had a psychotic breakdown. After a brief stint at Michigan State (he was asked to leave because of his involvement with a radical student magazine), he attended Oberlin College in ...
Feb 16, 2016 · Creativity is a necessary sequel of being” (p. 8). The creative act is the outcome (synthesis) of various dialectics (conflicts, contradictions, and tensions; see also Krueger, 2015). In the ...
About Rollo May. The second-oldest of six children, Rollo's grew up in small-town Ohio and Michigan in the early decades of the 20th century. After graduating from Oberlin College, he attended brief seminars with Alfred Adler in Austria and then obtained a divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City in 1938. There the theologian Paul Tillich became his mentor. After a brief, u
Existence. Rollo May. Jason Aronson, 1994 - Medical - 445 pages. Since its publication, Existence has been regarded as the most important, complete, and lucid account of the existentialist approach to psychology. From the works of the leading spokesmen of the existential analytic movement, the editors have selected classic case histories and ...
Mar 16, 2023 · This chapter explores Rollo May’s contention that creativity takes place in an intermediate zone, between subject and object, with an act of encounter at its centre. This chapter interrogates the role anxiety plays in this process, and questions some of May’s attitudes towards it, before going on to discuss different ways in which this anxiety might be managed in relation to form and value.
Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy promises to be a landmark in the fields of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. A comprehensive revision of its predecessor, The Psychology of Existence, co-edited by Kirk Schneider and Rollo May, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy combines clear and updated guidelines for practice with vivid and timely case vignettes.
May 4, 2015 · The Meaning of Anxiety. In this revised edition of his classic work—the first modern book on anxiety following Freud and Kierkegaard—psychologist Rollo May brings order and lucidity to the subject of anxiety. Rollo May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essential to being human.
