May psychology. Understanding your own role in life

Rollo Reese May was born on April 21, 1909. His parents, Earl Title May and Mathie Boughton May, lived in Ada, USA. The father traveled a lot, and the mother cared little about the children. They did not consider the education of their children compulsory, and even discouraged what they considered to be excessive intellectual pursuits. When their eldest daughter was diagnosed with psychosis, they attributed it to excessive mental work. Rollo May himself was fond of art and literature, and his relationship with his parents did not work out, so the future scientist spent a lot of time alone. He studied reluctantly at school, was a hooligan and a lazy person. He said that school activities gave him much less than reading books on the river bank. Subsequently, he, already a famous psychotherapist, found the reasons for his unsuccessful personal life in the problems that accompanied his relationship with his mother and unbalanced sister. Soon the family broke up, and R. May was glad to leave home to study. In 1926 he entered the University of Michigan. There he participated in the creation of a radical student magazine, and then headed it. The result of this was his expulsion. R. May went to study at Oberlin College in Ohio and, graduating in 1930, received a bachelor's degree. After completing his education, May found work in greek city Thessaloniki and soon went to Greece to teach English language in college The specifics of his work left him a lot of free time, which he used wisely, studied ancient history, the work of Greek masters, I tried to draw myself. On weekends and holidays he traveled and visited Turkey, Austria, and Poland. Such active life was not in vain: after a year, May felt completely tired and empty, and he began to be overcome by a feeling of loneliness. The basic psychological knowledge he acquired in college led him to think about the cause of this malaise. May decided that its source was the wrong way of life, the wrong principles and goals of existence. In 1932, while traveling in Austria, May participated in Alfred Adler's summer seminar and became very interested in his ideas. In search of new principles of life, he turned to religion, believing that the centuries-old tradition accumulated by it would help him in his life’s quest. In 1933, returning to the United States, he entered the seminary of the Theological Society. There he met the famous theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich, who fled to America from Nazi Germany A friendship began between them, which great influence on R. May. In 1938, he graduated from the seminary and received a master's degree in theology, then was ordained to the priesthood. After two years of serving the church, May became disillusioned with his chosen path and left religion. A further choice was made under the influence of a long-standing meeting with A. Adler: May decided to study psychoanalysis at the Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology. In parallel with his studies, he worked as a consulting psychologist at City College in New York. At that time, he met such famous scientists as G. Sullivan and E. Fromm. These people greatly influenced the formation of R. May's views. May took especially close to the peculiarity of Sullivan's views on the psychotherapeutic process as an adventure that benefits both the patient and the doctor. After graduation, R. May began to engage in private practice, and in 1948 he began working as a teacher at the White Institute. In 1949, the board of Columbia University awarded him a doctorate. He believed that the main task of psychotherapy is to gain the patient the freedom necessary to understand his capabilities and use them. It is impossible to study and treat only the symptoms of the patient's illness. In fact, according to May, these symptoms are essentially attempts to escape from freedom due to the lack (or perceived lack) of options for using one's own capabilities. Doctor helping a patient find inner freedom, thereby saving him from neurotic manifestations. R. May emphasized that getting rid of the symptoms of the disease is not main goal. The scientist did not give concrete solutions how to achieve this, considering what needs to be taken into account personal characteristics everyone. It is possible to achieve a better understanding of oneself by the patient through the establishment of a trusting personal relationship. In such conditions, a person will be able to better understand himself, realize own world and R. May presented his values as a kind of “duel with one’s own destiny, with despair, with a sense of guilt.” Both participants in the therapeutic process are active individuals who participate equally in the treatment. Possessing a rich imagination, May imagined the treatment process as a journey through hell and then purgatory. The therapist is a guide who explains to the person where he is and shows the person the path to recovery. At this time, R. May was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and he had to go for treatment to a sanatorium in upstate New York. At that time, tuberculosis was still difficult to cure, and the two years that the scientist spent in the sanatorium were filled with constant anticipation of death. sentence and its constant deferment Being a talented psychologist, May realized that moral experiences were harmful to him and could cause the progression of the disease. He tried to change his attitude towards the disease, change his passive position to a more active one. The disease influenced not only R. May's worldview, but also his theories. He pondered the problems of fear and anxiety and studied the works of Freud and Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and theologian. The latter viewed anxiety as a struggle against non-existence hidden from consciousness. Against the backdrop of the problems he was experiencing, this concept seemed to him the most correct. R. May published the results of his own reflections on this topic in his work “The Meaning of Anxiety,” which became his doctoral dissertation. At the end of his life, R. May turned to global reflections on human destiny and the choices that a person constantly makes in life. In his opinion, a person’s fate cannot be radically changed by him or replaced by another, but the scientist did not believe that a person should unconditionally obey the dictates of fate. Everyone can choose how to react to events that happen in their life. R. May, having studied the works of many psychologists, denied both the possibility of reducing human nature to his instincts and the perception of his behavior solely as a reaction to external stimuli. Thanks to his abilities, a person can actively influence the world around us therefore he is responsible for who he is and for his life path. Rollo May died on October 22, 1994 after a long illness. During his life, he communicated with many famous psychologists and thinkers, succumbed to their influence and absorbed many of their ideas. Creating his own theories, he generalized the experience of many scientists, taking into account the shortcomings and advantages of their theories. The scientist’s entire life consisted of a long search for his “I”; he conducted similar searches with his patients, trying to help them regain their lost sense of freedom. TO psychology May I didn’t come right away, but already as an adult with well-established personal characteristics. At the same time, psychology became for him an opportunity to find his ideals in life. Rollo May was distinguished by his high ability to work and excellent literary style. He wrote many articles and books that contain both theoretical theories and methods of clinical therapy.

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(1909 -1994) -American psychologist and psychotherapist, one of the founders humanistic psychology, the theoretical and ideological leader of its existentialist branch. He initially received a philological and theological education. M.'s interest in psychology was influenced by communication with Alfred Adler during trips to Europe, and his spiritual mentor was the Protestant theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich. Starting in the late 1930s. career as a priest, M. is simultaneously studying at Columbia University, majoring in clinical psychology. During this period, he published his first book, The Art of Psychological Counseling (in Russian translation, published in 1995; 1999). The normal course of life, however, was interrupted by severe tuberculosis, which brought him face to face with death. Having recovered, M. changes his worldview and refuses to serve God, seeing in psychology a more powerful means of alleviating human suffering than religion. In 1949 he received a doctorate. degree in clinical psychology and in the early 1950s. finally confirmed in his existentialist views. Remaining a practicing psychotherapist, M. becomes the main propagandist of the ideas of European existentialism in the United States, creatively developing them in the context of problems of personality psychology and psychotherapy. In the 1950s-80s. publishes many books that made his name known far beyond psychological community. The main ones them - Meaning Anxiety, Love and will, Freedom and fate. In the late 1950s and early 60s. he, along with A. Maslow and K. Rogers, became one of the organizational and ideological leaders of humanistic psychology and until his death remained associated with this movement, although he subsequently expressed disappointment with the movement’s departure from its existential-phenomenological roots. In his books M. considers key issues human life. Many of them stem, according to M., from the fundamental ability, inherent only in man, to perceive oneself as a subject and as an object. These two poles define the continuum in which human consciousness moves. Analyzing problems modern man, M. brings to the fore the problem of anxiety. Anxiety itself is a normal, even constructive feeling associated with a sense of threat to something significant: physical life, psychological life or personal values. Only anxiety that is disproportionate to the cause is pathological, and the psychotherapist’s task is not to eliminate anxiety altogether, but to help accept it and prevent normal anxiety from developing into pathological. Flexibility personal values is a factor that facilitates coping with normal anxiety. Likewise, normal guilt, appropriate to the situation, is an aspect of relationships with people. It is constructive, in contrast to pathological guilt, which develops from normal. The source of higher specifically human properties, such as the ability to distinguish one’s self from the surrounding world, to navigate in time, going beyond the present, etc., is self-awareness. Unlike simple awareness-wakefulness, which is also inherent in animals, self-awareness is inherent only in humans. It is characterized by intentionality and awareness of one’s identity, one’s self. Unconscious M. is identified with the unidentified and unrealized potentials of a person. Identity, the sense of Self, is the starting point of a person’s psychological life. M. defines the self as a function of an individual’s organization of himself, an internal center from which a person is aware of both the environment and different sides yourself. Any human action, including any neurosis, is aimed at preserving one’s inner center. The formation of personality, according to M., is the development of the sense of Self, the feeling of being a subject. This process involves liberation from various kinds unconscious dependencies that determine the course of life, and the transition to chosen actions and relationships. Freedom is a person's ability to control his own development, closely related to self-awareness. Freedom is associated with flexibility, openness, and readiness to change. Thanks to self-awareness, we can interrupt the chain of stimuli and reactions, create a pause in it in which we can implement conscious choice our reaction. Freedom is cumulative: each freely made choice increases the freedom of subsequent choices. Freedom is not the opposite of determinism, but correlates with specific givens and inevitabilities that must be consciously accepted, and only in relation to which it is determined. M. calls these givens, inevitabilities and limitations that form the space of determinism in human life fate. M. distinguishes a number of levels of such givens: cosmic fate, genetic fate, cultural fate and specific circumstances. Possible different ways interaction with fate: cooperation, conscious acceptance, challenge or rebellion. The paradox of freedom is that it owes its significance to fate and vice versa; freedom and fate are unthinkable without each other. The opposite of freedom is automatic conformity. Freedom from addiction creates anxiety, which courage allows you to resist. The price of freedom is the inevitability of evil. If a person is free to choose, no one can guarantee that his choice will be one way and not another. All great saints considered themselves great sinners, for they were extremely sensitive to good and evil. Sensitivity to goodness means sensitivity to the consequences of one's actions; By expanding the potential for good, it simultaneously expands the potential for evil. Liberation is the goal of psychotherapy - liberation from symptoms, from compulsions, from unconstructive skills, etc. At the same time, psychotherapy strives for the patient to understand his capabilities, his freedom to choose his own lifestyle, accepting the inevitable. Existential psychotherapy, according to M., is not a school opposed to other psychotherapeutic schools; on the contrary, it allows one to expand and deepen the context of any psychotherapy. M.'s merits received worthy recognition. In 1970 he received the R.W. Emerson, and in 1971 - a gold medal and an APA Award for outstanding contributions to the science and practice of clinical psychology. In 1989, it was named after him research center The Saybrook Institute in San Francisco is a leading educational and research institute specializing in humanistic psychology. M. author of works: Mantis search for himself, N.Y., 1953; Psychology and the human dilemma, Princeton, 1967; Love and Will, N.Y., 1969; Power and innocence, N.Y., 1972; The courage to create, Toronto, 1975; The meaning of anxiety, N.Y., 1977; Freedom and destiny, N.Y., 1981; The discovery of being, N.Y., 1983; My quest for beauty, Dallas, 1985; The cry for myth, N.Y., 1991. D.L. Leontiev

It is very simple and accessible to any person who wants to acquire counseling skills even without any special education, a book written by the founder existential psychology, a prominent psychologist, recognized specialist in Psychotherapy and Counseling by Rollo May.

Rollo May is one of the world's best-known psychiatrists, awarded the American Psychological Association's Gold Medal, recognizing the "grace, wit and style" of his books, which have repeatedly appeared on bestseller lists. This book contains a brilliant analysis of love and will as fundamental dimensions human existence and their historical perspective and current phenomenology.

In his book, the famous psychoanalyst and one of the leading representatives of the American existential school analyzes the complex psychological mechanism of creating works of art.

Desperate to find the meaning of life, people today resort to in various ways dull your consciousness of being - through withdrawal into apathy, mental insensitivity, in search of pleasure.
Others, especially young people, are choosing the terrible option of committing suicide, and such cases are becoming more and more common.

Written brilliantly literary language and addressed to a wide readership, the book by one of the leading representatives of existential psychology is dedicated to the search psychological roots aggression and violence, problems of good and evil, strength and powerlessness, guilt and responsibility.
The cover design uses René Magritte's painting "Titanic Days"

Are we trying to figure it out? psychological reasons crises in politics, economics, entrepreneurship, professional or domestic troubles, whether we want to delve into the essence of modern fine art, poetry, philosophy, religion - everywhere we are faced with the problem of anxiety. Anxiety is omnipresent. This is the challenge that life throws at us.

The book "Existential Psychology" became a manifesto of humanistic psychology, which arose in the early 60s in the USA of a special direction of modern psychological science. The founders of humanistic psychology and its recognized leaders were Abraham Maslow, Rollo May and Carl Rogers.

In his works, he carefully examines the main problems of human existence: good and evil, freedom, responsibility and fate, creativity, guilt and anxiety, love and violence. Most famous work May's Love and Will became an American national bestseller and received the 1970 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Scholarship in the Human Sciences.

Early years and education

Rollo Reese May was born on April 21, 1909 in small town Ada, Ohio. He was the eldest of six sons of Earl Title May and Maty Boughton May. There were seven children in the family - the eldest was my sister. Soon after the boy was born, the family moved to Marine City, Michigan, where he spent his childhood.

Young May had to endure a difficult childhood, since his parents were poorly educated and did not care much about raising their children, in addition, he soon had to deal with his parents’ divorce and his sister’s mental illness. The boy's father was a member of the Young Christian Association, spent a lot of time traveling and, because of this, did not have a serious influence on the children. The mother also cared little about the children and led, as humanistic psychologists would say, a very spontaneous lifestyle.

After graduating from school, the young man entered the University of Michigan. His rebellious nature led him to the editorial office of a radical student magazine, which he soon headed. Repeated clashes with the administration led to his expulsion from the university. He transferred to Oberlin College in Ohio and received a Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1930.

After graduating from university, May traveled extensively throughout the eastern and southern Europe, painted pictures and studied folk art, he managed to visit Turkey, Poland, Austria and other countries as a free artist. However, during the second year of his travels, May suddenly felt very lonely. Trying to get rid of this feeling, he zealously plunged into teaching activities, but this didn’t help much: the further it went, the more intense and less effective the work being done became.

Soon returning to her homeland, May entered the seminary of the Theological Society to find answers to basic questions about nature and man, questions in which religion plays an important role. While studying at the Theological Society seminary, May met the famous theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich, who fled Nazi Germany and continued his academic career in America. May learned a lot from Tillich, they became friends and remained so for more than thirty years.

After graduating from the seminary, he was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church. For two years, May served as a pastor, but quickly became disillusioned, considering this path a dead end, and began to look for answers to his questions in psychoanalysis. May studied psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology. It was then that he met Harry Stack Sullivan, president and one of the founders of the William Alanson White Institute. Sullivan's view of the therapist as a participant rather than a bystander, and of the therapeutic process as an exciting adventure that could enrich both patient and therapist, deeply impressed May. One more important event What determined May’s development as a psychologist was his acquaintance with Erich Fromm, who by that time had already firmly established himself in the USA.

By 1946, May decided to start her own private practice, and two years later he began teaching at the William Alanson White Institute. In 1949, a mature forty-year-old, he received his first doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University and continued to teach psychiatry at the William Alanson White Institute until 1974.

Epiphany

Perhaps May would never have stood out among the many other therapists practicing at that time if that very life-changing existential event that Jean Paul Sartre wrote about had not happened to him. Even before receiving doctorate May experienced one of the deepest shocks of his life. When he was just over thirty years old, he suffered from tuberculosis, a disease difficult to cure at that time, and spent three years in a sanatorium in Saranac, in upstate New York, and for a year and a half May did not know whether he was destined to survive. The consciousness of the complete impossibility of resisting a serious illness, the fear of death, the agonizing wait for a monthly x-ray examination, each time meaning either a verdict or an extension of the wait - all this slowly undermined the will, lulled the instinct of the fight for existence. Realizing that all these seemingly completely natural mental reactions harm the body no less than physical torment, May began to develop a view of illness as part of his being at a given period of time. He realized that helpless and passive position contributes to the development of the disease. Looking around, May saw that patients who had come to terms with their situation were fading before their eyes, while those who were struggling usually recovered. It is on the basis of her own experience of fighting the disease that May concludes about the need for active individual intervention in the “order of things” and her own destiny.

At the same time, he discovers that healing is not passive, but active process. A person who is physically or mental illness, must be an active participant in the treatment process. Having finally made sure of own experience he began to introduce this principle into his practice, cultivating in patients the ability to analyze themselves and correct the doctor’s actions.

Confession

Having encountered first-hand the phenomena of fear and anxiety during a long illness, May began to study the works of the classics on this topic - primarily Freud, as well as Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher and theologian, the direct predecessor of twentieth-century existentialism. Highly appreciating Freud's ideas, May was still inclined to Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety as a hidden struggle against non-existence, which affected him more deeply.

Soon after returning from the sanatorium, May wrote down his thoughts about anxiety in the form doctoral dissertation and published it under the title “The Meaning of Anxiety” (1950). This first major publication was followed by many books that brought him national and then world fame. His most famous book, “Love and Will,” was published in 1969 and became a bestseller in next year was awarded the Ralph Emerson Award. And in 1972, the New York Society clinical psychologists awarded May the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award. for the book "Power and Innocence".

In addition, May was active in teaching and clinical work. He lectured at Harvard and Princeton, taught at various times at Yale and Columbia universities, at Dartmouth, Vassar and Oberlin colleges, as well as at New school social research in New York. He was an adjunct professor at New York University, Chairman of the Council of the Association for Existential Psychology, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Mental Health Foundation.

On October 22, 1994, after a long illness, Rollo May died in Tiburon, California, where he had lived since the mid-seventies.

(1909-04-21 )

After graduating from the university, May traveled extensively throughout eastern and southern Europe, painted and studied folk art; he managed to visit Turkey, Poland, Austria and other countries as a free artist. However, during the second year of traveling, May suddenly felt very lonely. Trying to get rid of this feeling, he diligently plunged into teaching, but this did not help much: the further he went, the more intense and less effective the work he did became.

Soon returning to her homeland, May entered the seminary of the Theological Society to find answers to basic questions about nature and man, questions in which religion plays an important role. While studying at the seminary of the Theological Society, May met the famous theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich, who fled Nazi Germany and continued his academic career in America. May learned a lot from Tillich, they became friends and remained so for more than thirty years.

After graduating from the seminary, he was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church. For two years, May served as a pastor, but quickly became disillusioned, considering this path a dead end, and began to look for answers to his questions in psychoanalysis. May studied psychoanalysis at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology. It was then that he met Harry Stack Sullivan, president and one of the founders of the William Alanson White Institute. Sullivan's view of the therapist as a participant rather than a bystander, and of the therapeutic process as an exciting adventure that could enrich both patient and therapist, deeply impressed May. Another important event that determined May’s development as a psychologist was his acquaintance with Erich Fromm, who by that time had already firmly established himself in the USA.

By 1946, May decided to start his own private practice, and two years later he began teaching at the William Alanson White Institute. In 1949, as a mature forty-year-old, he received his first doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and continued to teach psychiatry at the William Alanson White Institute until 1974.

Epiphany

Perhaps May would never have stood out among the many other therapists practicing at that time if the same life-changing existential event that Jean Paul Sartre wrote about had not happened to him. Even before receiving his doctorate, May experienced one of the most profound shocks of his life. When he was just over thirty years old, he suffered from tuberculosis, a disease difficult to cure at that time, and spent three years in a sanatorium in Saranac, in upstate New York, and for a year and a half May did not know whether he was destined to survive. The consciousness of the complete impossibility of resisting a serious illness, the fear of death, the agonizing wait for a monthly x-ray examination, each time meaning either a verdict or an extension of the wait - all this slowly undermined the will, lulled the instinct of the fight for existence. Realizing that all these seemingly completely natural mental reactions harm the body no less than physical torment, May began to develop a view of illness as part of his being at a given period of time. He realized that a helpless and passive position contributed to the development of the disease. Looking around, May saw that patients who had come to terms with their situation were fading before their eyes, while those who were struggling usually recovered. It is on the basis of her own experience of fighting the disease that May concludes about the need for active individual intervention in the “order of things” and her own destiny.

At the same time, he discovers that healing is not a passive, but an active process. A person affected by a physical or mental illness must be an active participant in the healing process. Having finally become convinced from his own experience, he began to introduce this principle into his practice, cultivating in patients the ability to analyze themselves and correct the doctor’s actions.

Confession

Soon after returning from the sanatorium, May compiled his thoughts on anxiety into a doctoral dissertation and published it under the title “The Meaning of Anxiety” (1950). This first major publication was followed by many books that brought him national and then world fame. His most famous book, Love and Will, was published in 1969, became a bestseller and was awarded the Ralph Emerson Prize the following year. And in 1972, the New York Society of Clinical Psychologists awarded May the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award. for the book "Power and Innocence".

In addition, May was active in teaching and clinical work. He lectured at Harvard and Princeton, and at various times taught at Yale and Columbia universities, at Dartmouth, Vassar and Oberlin colleges, and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He was an adjunct professor at New York University, Chairman of the Council of the Association for Existential Psychology, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Mental Health Foundation.

On October 22, 1994, after a long illness, Rollo May died at the age of 85 in Tiburon, California, where he had lived since the mid-seventies.

Key Ideas

Literature

May R. Discovery of Genesis. - M.: Institute of General Humanitarian Research, 2004. - 224 p. - ISBN 5-88239-137-8

Notes

General information

Full name: Rollo Reese May. Date of birth: 1909 Date of death - October 22, 1994 Place of birth - Ada, Place of death - Tiburon, California.

Parents: mother - Erla Title May, father - Mathie Boughton May. Family: Rollo May was born in quite big family, consisting of 7 children (the eldest sister and the remaining 6 brothers, Rollo May was the eldest of them). Place of residence: almost immediately after the birth of the child, the family moved to another city in Marine City, where the psychologist spent all his childhood years. Cause of death: long illness.

Psychologist Rollo May's family was not as positive as one might imagine. The father and mother were uneducated people who were angry that their children were developing intellectually. Both mother and father had no time to work with their children, so the children had fun and developed themselves.

Soon the parents were unable to live together and filed for divorce. Perhaps this was the first impetus on the path to a career as a psychologist. Thus, the atmosphere in the family was not the best; the boy often ran away from home, and even from school, to be in silence, alone with nature. There he felt calm and happy.
In addition to communicating with nature, the psychologist has already early years began to be interested in literature and fine arts, which subsequently accompanied him throughout his life.

Rollo May entered the institute, but was soon expelled from it for his rebellion and wayward character. However, he entered Oberlin College and successfully graduated.

Beginning of adulthood

After graduating from college, Rollo May went to Greece and began teaching his native English in one of the local schools there.

At the same time, the psychologist discovered new places for himself, traveling around beautiful cities in Europe. He revealed the culture of each country, deepening his understanding of himself and man as a whole. He was also interested in medicine, namely, how a person copes with his illness and whether this could somehow affect his future life.

Understanding your own role in life

At the age of 30, Rollo May was faced with a terrible disease - tuberculosis. In those days it was an incurable disease. He went to a sanatorium, where he had to worry a lot, realizing the approach of death. He began to realize that physical condition a person is inextricably linked with his emotional component. Observing patients who were in the same sanatorium, Rollo May discovered that those who stopped fighting for life died before our eyes, and those who strived to live most often recovered. It was then that he realized that there is fate, that is, illness, but accepting it or fighting it is a decision that the person himself makes. Rollo May wrote “Man in Search of Himself,” where he tried to understand himself, his life and helped the people around him with this.

The main problem of humanity is anxiety

Rollo May began writing books, getting to know himself and those around him. He devoted years to studying the works of great classics such as Freud and Kierkegaard.

And as a result of his many years of research, the psychologist realized that a person can overcome everything: illness, problems, troubles and even death if he can overcome the feeling of anxiety and fear in his mind. And for this, each of us must engage in self-knowledge.

Works of a psychologist

Realizing at that moment that the problem of humanity is fear of the unknown and constant anxiety for oneself and one’s future, Rollo May wrote down all his thoughts on this matter in a dissertation that was published in 1950 under the title “The Meaning of Anxiety.” This became his first major publication, after which the psychologist started more immerse yourself in knowledge of yourself, the relationship between the world and people,
personality.

This gave rise to his publications, books and guides to self-study. The psychological assistance provided by the psychologist was able to revive many people to happy life. The most famous books:
1. “The meaning of anxiety.”
2. “Discovery of being.”
3. “Love and will.”

Return to homeland

After several years, Rollo May returns to the USA, where he writes his first and still best edition in Psychology (“Guide to Psychological Counseling”). At the same time, he studied at the seminary and became a clergyman. There is nothing random in life, every activity, every action and every choice is designed to lead a person to where he is destined to come, but with the power of will and self-knowledge, everyone can change their future. Many people tried to get a personal appointment with a psychologist after reading the book “ Psychological counseling" Rollo May tried to find the answer, to reveal the truth to everyone who came to him for help.

Bestseller in the history of human psychology

The plot was based on self-awareness (Rollo May). “Love and Will” became the most published and a book to read Rollo May. It came out in 1969. Literally a year later she was awarded the prize. This book analyzes the natural components of man.

This is direct love for ourselves, for everything that surrounds us, and will, the ability to choose and follow the chosen path. The author points out that in order to expand your zone of comfortable life, these two criteria must merge together. Only in the favorable coexistence of love and will can a person rediscover himself and reach a new stage in his life’s path.

Fundamentals of the teachings of a psychologist

Throughout his life, Rollo May, unlike other psychologists, did not found his own school. He believed that this only distracted from truly important aspects teachings. He considered his main task and goal to make people feel free. This is the basis of a happy life, to feel free from all prejudices, fears, insecurities and anxiety. Having cast aside all doubts, believing in himself and his “I”, a person is able to overcome even death. Art helped the psychologist become a guide to everyone who approached him. He said that he had the power to help a person make a choice between remaining a victim, strictly following fate, or taking himself and his path into his own hands.

Conclusion

Rollo May is a great psychologist who has managed to play his role in this world. He was able to help and still helps people through his books to choose freedom,
love, life, full of meaning, peace and adventure.

provided by him psychological assistance helped bring a person out of his own crisis. Thanks to his ability to help people, Rollo May lived a long and happy life, in his own way.