The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

by Rollo May

Overview

Rollo May draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and other great thinkers to offer a helpful roadmap of the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy.

He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393312409
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/17/1994
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rollo May (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the best-selling author of Love and Will, as well as the author of The Courage to Create, Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma.

Editorial Reviews

"Clear, accurate, and interesting. There is no better short introduction to the existential approach to psychology."

Dallas Morning News