Description
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.
Author: Rollo May
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/01/1991
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.58w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780393331776
ISBN10: 0393331776
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General
- Philosophy | General