Here are case studies in which myths have helped Dr. May’s patients make sense out of an often senseless world.
It happens almost daily in a therapist’s office. A patient, recalling a person, an event, an emotion, quite unexpectedly supplies a link from a life in the present to one of the durable myths of our culture. In this moment, the myth becomes a mirror, revealing to the patient the source of disturbance and pain in a pattern of behavior that often stretches a year or longer. The healing process begins. The myth, ‘eternity breaking into time’ in Rollo Mays’s words, becomes the focal point of recovery.
Through tracing myths – whether from classical Greece and Dante’s Middle Ages, European legend (Faust and the prototype of Sleeping Beauty), or contemporary American life (Jay Gatsby) — and relating them to the dreams and associations he encounters in his own practice, Dr. May provides meaning and structure for all who seek direction in a morally confusing world.
In this, perhaps the finest achievement of a great therapist, Rollo May writes with ‘the grace, wit, and style: for which he recently received the Gold Medal of the American Psychological Society.
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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.หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์เพิ่มเติมจากผู้แต่งคนเดียวกัน / บรรณาธิการ
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