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POWER AND INNOCENCE by Rollo May. An eminent and eloquent psychoanalyst examines people's need for power as a basis of self-respect...
Among the truths that keep getting buried under the icing of cliché is one about frustration and how it leads to violence. In a bestselling study, Love and Will (1969) Psychiatrist Rollo May began his "search for the sources of violence." That phrase is now the subtitle of his new book Power and Innocence (Norton; $7.95). Both works are closely related; an understanding of one is a help in reading the other...
Adds Psychoanalyst Rollo May: "Even the growing frequency of divorce, no matter how sobering the problems it raises, has the positive psychological effect of making it harder for couples to rationalize a bad marriage by the dogma that they are 'stuck' with each other. The possibility of finding a new lover makes it more necessary for us to accept the responsibility of choosing the one we do have if we stay with...
HALF a lifetime has passed since that experience befell Rollo May. He took from it the principle that illuminates his life and unites the psychotherapeutic school of which he is perhaps the most prominent and certainly the most articulate American member. The principle-that awareness of death is not opposed to, but essential to life-runs like a spine down May's latest work, Love and Will. Published last September by Norton, the book languished for months before popping up on the bestseller list in February. Today, 89,000 copies later, Love and Will is still there...
Born in Ada, Ohio. Rollo Reese May studied psychoanalysis under Alfred Adler, who was one of Freud's apostates. He also studied art in Poland and Greece and, after returning from Europe in the 1930s, enrolled in New York's Union Theological Seminary .-"to ask questions, ultimate questions about human beings-not to be a preacher." He did serve briefly in a Congregational parish in Verona, NJ. The years he spent as a tuberculosis patient brought this varied background into focus. There, face to face with death, he discovered what he took to be its true relation...