MAN'S SEARCH FOR HIMSELF

by Rollo May ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A well known practicing psychologist presents a healthy, informed recipe for solid living in this present age of anxiety. Briefly, his formula is a directive towards finding and realizing the true self, and for the explanation of a goal that is garbed in the mantle of responsibly structured social freedom, he delves historically to the roots of western cultural development that lead to conformism and man's failure to adjust his values to new ways of life. Philosophers from Socrates to Kierkegaard, definitive writers and poets have been drawn on richly in this interpretation and from the intelligently synthesized history, there is clear sailing into modern maladies like momism, scapegoating and race hatreds, and on the positive side- the encouraging conviction that the present, if its reality is lived, can transcend and favor a now empty and foreboding future. The initiated will find echoes here from the writings of such as Fromm and Horney, but Mr. May's work is refreshing and these concepts need constant airing.

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ISBN: 0393333159

Page Count: -

Publisher: Norton

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1952

Categories: NONFICTION