What is it about?
Rollo May was a significant figure in existential and humanistic psychology. This paper explores May's emphasis on an experience of being and its significance for contemporary psychotherapy.
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Why is it important?
May's insights helped form existential and humanistic psychotherapy. This critical review of many of his fundamental ideas shows their contemporary relevance for psychotherapists.
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The article is good reading both for psychotherapy students and professionals already in the field as it articulates and explains the significance of many aspects of this search for being as they manifest in the psychotherapy encounter.
Juanita Ratner
Saybrook University
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This page is a summary of: Rollo May and the Search for Being: Implications of May’s Thought for Contemporary Existential-Humanistic Psychotherapy, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, November 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0022167815613880.
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