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Jan 17, 2021 · In fact, what I have called May’s “spiritual odyssey” originated at a liminal moment in American Protestantism and developed in a secularized, or at least theologically nonspecific, sense of ...
May 30, 2017 · But freedom and despair, argues the great existential psychologist Rollo May (April 21, 1909–October 22, 1994) in his 1981 book Freedom and Destiny (public library), are not the two poles of our spectrum of desire — rather, they are complementary forces that counterbalance each other. By recalibrating our relationship to despair, we stand ...
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Jan 14, 2021 · Psyche and Soul in America: The Spiritual Odyssey of Rollo May owes its existence to a serendipitous slip of the tongue. In the late 1980s my friend the late John Vasconcellos, a humane and...
Jan 22, 2021 · May's sister suffered from psychosis, and Rollo himself suffered as an adult from what may have been sometimes-debilitating symptoms of depression and anxiety. He apparently later felt the...
Similar to Viktor Frankl, May’s life had taken a dramatic turn during this time, an uncontrollable event that threatened his life: May contracted tuberculosis.
Nov 5, 2015 · Rollo May viewed contemporary times as an age of anxiety; yet he also normalized anxiety as encountered in living any life. However, not knowing who one really is, not being able to engage in life from the depths of one’s being, inevitably creates conflicts that surface in psychotherapy.
Discover the life and legacy of Rollo May, a founder of existential psychology and a champion of humanistic values. Learn how his personal experiences and philosophical insights shaped his influential approach to therapy and counseling.
