The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology
by May, RolloEdition: 00
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-12-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 9 |
| The Principles | |
| Bases of Psychotherapy | p. 13 |
| The Case of Mrs. Hutchens | p. 24 |
| The Cultural Background | |
| Origins and Significance of Existential Psychology | p. 37 |
| How Existentialism and Psychoanalysis Arose Out of the Same Cultural Situation | p. 60 |
| Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Freud | p. 67 |
| Contributions to Therapy | |
| To Be and Not to Be | p. 91 |
| Anxiety and Guilt as Ontological | p. 109 |
| Being in the World | p. 117 |
| The Three Modes of World | p. 126 |
| Of Time and History | p. 133 |
| Transcending the Immediate Situation | p. 143 |
| Concerning Therapeutic Technique | p. 151 |
| Notes | p. 173 |
| Index | p. 000 |
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