Cry for Myth
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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: May, Rollo
Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 393331776
Language: English
Pages: 324
Additional information
Weight | 0.91 lbs |
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Dimensions | 8.44 × 5.58 × 0.78 in |
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