Rollo May

Rollo May (1909-1994) was an influential existential psychologist and the author of Love and Will, The Courage to Create, and The Discovery of Being.

Books by Rollo May

  1. Book CoverThe Courage to Create


    What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?More

  2. Book CoverThe Cry for Myth


    Here are case studies in which myths have helped Dr. May's patients make sense out of an often senseless world.More

  3. Book CoverThe Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology


    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.More

  4. Book CoverFreedom and Destiny


    The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny.More

  5. Book CoverLove & Will


    "An extraordinary book on sex and civilization....An important contribution to contemporary morality."—NewsweekMore

  6. Book CoverMan's Search for Himself


    "Analyzes life as we are living it, and the analysis is truthful and profound."--New York TimesMore

  7. Book CoverThe Meaning of Anxiety


    When this important work was originally published in 1950--the first book in this country on anxiety--it was hailed as a work ahead of its time.More

  8. Book CoverPower and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence


    Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society.More

  9. Book CoverPsychology and the Human Dilemma


    Here Rollo May discusses our loss of our personal identity in the contemporary world, the sources of our anxiety, the scope of psychotherapy, and the ultimate paradox of freedom and responsibility.More