| Man's Search for Himself Contributor(s): May, Rollo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393333159 ISBN-13: 9780393333152 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: "Analyzes life as we are living it, and the analysis is truthful and profound."--"New York Times" Loneliness, boredom, emptiness: These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration--a basic and inborn sense of value. "Man's Search for Himself" is an illuminating view of our predicament in an age of overwhelming anxieties and gives guidance on how to choose, judge, and act during such times. "May faces problems with courage, honesty, and responsibility...a brilliant psychologist."--"Chicago Tribune" "May's book is in the best sense popular. Touched with humor and imagination, infused with culture, it is a book which any person not too frightened and not too complacent should find a storehouse of helpfulness."--"New York Herald Tribune" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help - Psychology | Personality |
| Dewey: 150.192 |
| LCCN: 2008007363 |
| Lexile Measure: 1350 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Loneliness, boredom, emptiness: These are the complaints that Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In response, he probes the hidden layers of personality to reveal the core of man's integration--a basic and inborn sense of value. Man's Search for Himself is an illuminating view of our predicament in an age of overwhelming anxieties and gives guidance on how to choose, judge, and act during such times. |
Contributor Bio(s): May, Rollo: - Rollo May (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the best-selling author of Love and Will, as well as the author of The Courage to Create, Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma. |