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Rollo Reese May was born on April 21, 1909, in Ohio, and grew up in Marine City, Michigan. He attended Oberlin College in Ohio, graduating in 1930. Having always been interested in art and artistic creativity, he joined with a small group of artists and traveled to Europe, where they studied the local art of Poland.
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When he returned from Greece, he enrolled himself in the Union Theological Seminary in New York. He didn’t want to become a priest. He just wanted to reflect on the things that interested him such as suicide, desperation, and anxiety.Psychology didn’t pay much attention to those topics back then. He met Paul Tillich, a theologian he became life-lon...
When he recovered from tuberculosis, he became a new man. In 1938, he returned to New York to finish his theology studies. After that, he decided to study psychoanalysis and got his Ph.D. in psychology at Columbia University. Rollo May was also really interested in humanistic psychology.From what he read and his reflections, he was able to define w...
Since he was an existential psychologist, existence and freedom were the central themes of Rollo May’s analyses.He believed that human beings constantly faced the dilemma of being an object and a subject at the same time. Humans are objects because other people’s actions affect them, but they’re also active agents of their own individual realities....
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Rollo Reece May (April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy.
- Love and Will (1969)
Nov 21, 2023 · Rollo May developed four stages of development to explain the changes one goes through in their life. Each stage focused on humans dealing with the facts of their existence. As people go through ...
I. Overview of May's Existential Theory Existential psychology began in Europe shortly after World War II and spread to the United States, where Rollo May played a large part in popularizing it. A clinical psychologist by training, May took the view that modern people frequently run away both from making choices and from assuming responsibility.
Dec 20, 2023 · Rollo May, born in 1909 in Ohio, USA, emerged as a groundbreaking figure in the realms of humanistic and existential psychology. His unique approach, which intertwined elements of existential philosophy with psychotherapy, revolutionized the understanding of human experience, particularly in the contexts of anxiety, freedom, and the human quest ...
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 ...
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