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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... Read Full Overview

In the revised edition of this now-classic study, the distinguished author of Love and Will deepens his exploration into anxiety theory. Dr. May challenges the idea that mental health means living without anxiety, and he explores anxiety's potential for self-realization as well... Read Full Overview

""The Meaning of Anxiety"" by Rollo May is a psychological exploration of the nature of anxiety and its impact on human existence. May argues that anxiety is not simply a negative emotion to be avoided or suppressed, but rather a necessary and vital aspect of human experience... Read Full Overview

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.-Spinoza, Treatise on the Correction of the Understanding. I would say that learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront... Read Full Overview