Who is Rollo May

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. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work.As well as Love and Will, May's works include The Meaning of Anxiety (1950, revised 1977) and, titled in honor of Tillich's The Courage to Be, The Courage to Create (1975).

Biography

May was born in Ada, Ohio, on April 21, 1909. He experienced a difficult childhood when his parents divorced and his sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was the fi...
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Rollo May Poems

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Rollo May Quotes

• Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.
• Depression is the inability to construct a future.
• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
• The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

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Comments about Rollo May

• Mmlcounselling: currently reading the back and forth between carl rogers and rollo may on the problem of evil
• Sigmamaxxgreen: the corporate worlds use of the word “we” as a replacement for “you” when giving critic is out of this world strange to me. it’s dehumanizing. rollo may would roll in his grave.
• Oga46430: science, nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.,rollo may, the discovery of being,nietzsche, nihilism, science,
• Shawnjohnson_: courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair. - rollo may
• Voidash_: the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity - rollo may.

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