| Description |
1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
"Epitome of America" -- "A deep craving, a keen urge" -- "I must change my life" -- Art and Adler -- "Courageous evolution" -- Toward the "unconditional realm" -- "I will not become a professional Christian" -- "Rasputin, Shelley, van Gogh and Fosdick in one" -- "The choice of a mate" -- Paul Tillich -- "Life affirming religion" -- "Therapist for humanity" -- "The more difficult war within" -- "Such a blow just now" -- Saranac -- "The most important thing" -- Embracing a new profession -- Existential calling -- Freedom in the face of fate -- Kairos and void -- The dizziness of freedom -- Love and will -- In the maelstrom -- Looking backward, moving forward -- "I don't have time to die" -- Life after life |
| Summary |
Rollo May (1909-1994), internationally known psychologist and philosopher, came from modest roots in the small town Protestant Midwest intending to do 'religious work' but eventually became a psychotherapist and author. During the 1950s and 1960s, his books combined existentialism and other philosophical approaches, psychoanalysis, and a spiritual-philosophy to interpret the damage bureaucratic and technocratic aspects of modernity and their inability of individuals to understand their authentic selves. 'Psyche and Soul in America' deals not only with May's public contributions but also to his turbulent inner life as revealed in unprecedentedly intimate sources in order to demonstrate the relationship between the personal and public in a figure who wrote about intimacy, its loss, and ways to regain an authentic sense of self and others.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed March 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
May, Rollo.
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| SUBJECT |
May, Rollo fast |
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Psychotherapists -- United States -- Biography
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Psychotherapy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Humanistic psychology.
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Humanistic psychology
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Psychotherapists
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Psychotherapy
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197512944 |
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0197512941 |
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0199754373 |
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9780199754373 |
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9780190864033 |
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0190864036 |
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