The Meaning of Anxiety, Rollo May
The Meaning of Anxiety, Rollo May
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The Meaning of Anxiety

Author: Rollo May

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 15 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/10/2019


Synopsis

In this revised edition of his classic work—the first modern book on anxiety following Freud and Kierkegaard—psychologist Rollo May brings order and lucidity to the subject of anxiety.

Rollo May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the listener away from destructive ways to positive ways of dealing with anxiety. He convincingly proposes that anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur.

About Rollo May

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 bestselling 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maica on August 13, 2016

This book discussed the intrapsychic implications of anxiety. It draws much of its analysis on the phenomenon of anxiety from the philosophical (specifically Kierkegaard's), psychoanalytic, and cultural perspectives. I consider it to be a reflection of May's orientation, which is geared towards the......more

Goodreads review by Justin on December 01, 2014

The Meaning of Anxiety uses an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of anxiety. May's central idea is anxiety is part of the human condition, and instead of avoiding or repressing it, anxiety can be used constructively. In part I, May covers modern interpretations of anxiety, starting in various......more

Goodreads review by Jason on January 02, 2018

This is May's break-out work. It really is the root of modern American existentialism. TL;DR: anxiety is of value. We are anxious for some reason, not for no reason. Moreover, aggressing against the anxiety is self-aggression and unlikely to result in improvement.......more

Goodreads review by Christine on October 10, 2018

I wish I could give this book 6 stars. Loved it so much I bought it, and intend to revisit it again in the near future.......more