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The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.

Rollo May

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Rollo May
Age: 85 †
Born: 1909
Born: April 21
Died: 1994
Died: October 22
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Existential
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Free
People
Psychotherapy

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There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.
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There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.
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Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
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Care is a state in which something does matter care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness.
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.
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Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.
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If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.
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In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion and how is it used? Freud was in error when he held that religion is per se a compulsion neurosis. Some religion is and some is not.
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Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Our thesis is that symbols and myths are an expression of man's unique self-consciousness, his capacity to transcend the immediate concrete situation and see his life in terms of 'the possible,' and that this capacity is one aspect of his experiencing himself as a being having a world.
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They pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.
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That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.
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The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.
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I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.
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Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
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We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.
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