Psyche and Soul in America - The Spiritual Odyssey of Rollo May

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.

List 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

About the author

Robert H. Abzug is Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Texas. He is the author of Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (OUP, 1994), Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform (OUP, 1980),and an abridged edition of William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Summary

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.

Additional text

Robert Abzug's Psyche and Soul in America: The Spiritual Odyssey of Rollo May is a magnificent adventure. Abzug is an outstanding scholar, and the subject of his biography is perhaps the most important American-born depth psychologist in history....I highly recommend Abzug's biography of Rollo May not only for existential, humanistic, and Jungian psychologists, who will naturally be interested, but for my colleagues within the broader Freudian psychoanalytic tradition, who will find May's distinctly North American approach to psychoanalysis quite compelling

Product details

• Authors: Robert H. Abzug, Robert H. (Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regen Abzug, Robert H. (Audre and Bernard Rapoport Regents Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of History and American Studies Emeritus Abzug, Abzug Robert H.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780199754373
• ISBN: 978-0-19-975437-3
• No. of pages: 544
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