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Rollo May

Overview

Rollo Reece May (April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work.

May's other works include The Meaning of Anxiety (1950, revised 1977) and The Courage to Create (1975), named after Tillich's The Courage to Be.

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Philosophers who discussed Rollo May

• Heraclitus
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Paul Tillich
• Irvin D. Yalom

Related ideas

• Greece
• Viktor Frankl
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Zen
• Abraham Maslow
• Humanistic psychology
• Paul Tillich
• Erich Fromm
• San Francisco
• Self
• Otto Rank
• Psychologist
• Alfred Adler
• Existentialism
• Irvin D. Yalom

Opposing perspectives

• Psychology

Place in the tradition

Part of Christian existentialism.

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