Rollo May: Existential Psychology

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- 19th and 20th century.
- individuals are responsible for who they are.
- anti-theoretical.
- psychotherapy is to set people free

Basic Concepts
1) Being in the world
a) umwelt
b) mitwelt
c) eigenwelt
2) Anxiety
a) normal anxiety
b) neurotic anxiety - with intrapsychic conflict
3) Guilt
4) Intentionality - can also be unconscious
5) Care, love, and will
a) forms of love-sex, eros, philia, agape
6) Freedom
a) existential freedom-action
b) essential freedom-being

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