Man's Search for Himself

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“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.

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285 printed pages

Original publication: 2009
Publication year: 2009

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Nikolai C.has quotedlast year
The same holds true for one’s chronological age. The important issue is not whether a person is twenty or forty or sixty: it rather is whether he fulfills his own capacity of self-conscious choice at his particular level of development.
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Living in the eternal moment does not mean mere intensity of living (though self-awareness always adds some intensity to one’s experience): nor does it mean living by an absolute dogma, religious or otherwise, or by a moral rule. It means, rather, making one’s decisions in freedom and responsibility, in self-awareness and in accord with one’s own unique character as a person.
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The more obvious reason why confronting the present produces anxiety is that it raises the question of decisions and responsibility
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