Psyche and Soul in America
The Spiritual Odyssey of Rollo May
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Product details:
- Edition number Abridged Edition
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 April 2021
- ISBN 9780199754373
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 234x165x40 mm
- Weight 798 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 hts 100
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Short description:
The first biography of Rollo May, a psychoanalyst and popular philosopher of the 1950s through 1980s whose ideas reached millions of readers through such works as Love and Will and Man's Search for Himself and helped create popular acceptance of psychotherapy in its golden age.
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In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular and professional response to a widely felt sense of personal emptiness amid a culture in crisis. May addressed the sources of depression, powerlessness, and conformity but also mapped a path to restore authentic individuality, intimacy, creativity, and community. A psychotherapist by trade, he employed theology, philosophy, literature, and the arts to answer a central enduring question: "How, then, shall we live?"
Robert Abzug's definitive biography traces May's epic life from humble origins in the Protestant heartland of the Midwest to his longtime practice in New York City and his participation in the therapeutic culture of California. May's books--Love and Will, Man's Search for Himself, The Courage to Create, and others--as well as his championing of non-medical therapeutic practice and introduction of Existential psychotherapy to America marked important contributions to the profession. Most of all, May's compelling prose reached millions of readers from all walks of life, finding their place, as Noah Adams noted in his NPR eulogy, "on a hippy's bookshelf." And May was one of the founders of the humanistic psychology movement that has shaped the very vocabulary with which many Americans describe their emotional and spiritual lives.
Based on full and uncensored access to May's papers and original oral interviews, Psyche and Soul in America reveals his turbulent inner life, his religious crises, and their influence on his contribution to the world of psychotherapy and the culture beyond. It adds new and intimate dimensions to an important aspect of America's romance with therapy, as the site for the exploration of spiritual strivings and moral dilemmas unmet for many by traditional religion.
Abzug illuminates psychology's role in relation to religion in an American cultural context through an insightful and contextualized retelling of one of the major figures of religion and psychology in the twentieth century. This book will interes pastors, pastoral counselors, and historians alike.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 "Epitome of America"
Chapter 2 "A Deep Craving, A Keen Urge"
Chapter 3 "I Must Change My Life"
Chapter 4 Art and Adler
Chapter 5 "Courageous Evolution"
chapter 6 Toward the "Unconditional Realm"
Chapter 7 "I will not become a professional Christian"
Chapter 8 "Rasputin, Shelley, Van Gogh and Fosdick in One"
Chapter 9 "The Choice of a Mate"
Chapter 10 Paul Tillich
Chapter 11 "Life Affirming Religion"
Chapter 12 "Therapist for Humanity"
Chapter 13 "The More Difficult War Within"
Chapter 14 "Such a Blow Just Now"
Chapter 15 Saranac
Chapter 16 "The Most Important Thing"
Chapter 17 Embracing a New Profession
Chapter 18 Existential Calling
Chapter 19 Freedom in the Face of Fate
Chapter 20 Kairos and Void
Chapter 21 The Dizziness of Freedom
Chapter 22 Love and Will
Chapter 23 Power and Innocence
Chapter 24 "I Don't Have Time to Die"
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
