The Discovery of Being

Author: Rollo May
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334696X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
“Clear, accurate, and interesting. There is no better short introduction to the existential approach to psychology.” —Dallas Morning News The brilliant psychologist Rollo May was a major force in existential psychology. Here, he brings together the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and other great thinkers to offer insights into its ideas and techniques. He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation and to our search to find new and firm moorings in order to move toward a future where responsibility, creativity, and love can play a role.

The Discovery of Being

Author: Rollo May
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9780844668550
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages :

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Plato's "Laws"

Author: Seth Benardete
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226826422
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
An insightful commentary on Plato’s Laws, his complex final work. The Laws was Plato’s last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which presents an abstract ideal, the Laws appears to provide practical guidelines for the establishment and maintenance of political order in the real world. Classicist Seth Benardete offers a rich analysis of each of the twelve books of the Laws, which illuminates Plato’s major themes and arguments concerning theology, the soul, justice, and education. Most importantly, Benardete shows how music in a broad sense, including drama, epic poetry, and even puppetry, mediates between reason and the city in Plato’s philosophy of law. Benardete also uncovers the work’s concealed ontological dimension, explaining why it is hidden and how it can be brought to light. In establishing the coherence and underlying organization of Plato’s last dialogue, Benardete makes a significant contribution to Platonic studies.

From Dream to Discovery

Author: Hans Selye
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
2000. Gift from the estate of Dr. Cecil Wittson.

The Discovery of the Self

Author: Elizabeth Severn
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317572483
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Elizabeth Severn, known as "R.N." in Sandor Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary, was Ferenczi’s analysand for eight years, the patient with whom he conducted his controversial experiment in mutual analysis, and a psychoanalyst in her own right who had a transformative influence on his work. The Discovery of the Self is the distillation of that experience and allows us to hear the voice of one of the most important patients in the history of psychoanalysis. However, Freud branded Severn Ferenczi’s "evil genius" and her name does not appear in Ernest Jones’s biography, so she has remained largely unknown until now. This book is a reissue of Severn’s landmark work of 1933, together with an introduction by Peter L. Rudnytsky that sets out the unrecognized importance of her thinking both for the development of psychoanalysis and for contemporary theory. Inspired by the realization that Severn has embedded disguised case histories both of herself and of Ferenczi, as well as of her daughter Margaret, Rudnytsky shows how The Discovery of the Self contains "the other side of the story" of mutual analysis and is thus an indispensable companion volume to the Clinical Diary. A full partner in Ferenczi’s rehabilitation of trauma theory and champion of the view that the analyst must participate in the patient’s reliving of past experiences, Severn emerges as the most profound conduit for Ferenczi’s legacy in the United States, if not in the entire world. Lacking any institutional credentials and once completely marginalized, Elizabeth Severn can at long last be given her due as a formidable psychoanalyst. Newly available for the first time in more than eighty years, The Discovery of the Self is simultaneously an engaging introduction to psychotherapy that will appeal to general readers as well as a sophisticated text to be savored by psychoanalytic scholars and clinicians as a "prequel" to the works of Heinz Kohut and a neglected classic of relational psychoanalysis.

The Adventure of Self-Discovery

Author: Stanislav Grof
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780887065415
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
Here Grof presents a useful model of the psychea model extended by his thirty years of studying non-ordinary states of consciousness. It is useful for understanding such phenomena as shamanism, mysticism, psychedelic states, spontaneous visionary experiences, and psychotic episodes. The model is also useful in explaining the dynamics of experiential psychotherapies and a variety of sociopolitical manifestations such as war and revolution. This book might have been entitled Beyond Drugs. The second part describes the principles and process of the non-pharmacological technique developed by the author and his wife, Christina, for self-exploration and for psychotherapy. Grof explores in detail the components of this technique. He describes its method, its effective mechanisms, as well as its goals and potential. Its practice is simple, since it utilizes the natural healing capacity of the psyche.

The Discovery of Being

Author: Rollo May
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393303155
Category : Existential psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas

Author: Christopher M. Cullen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813231884
Category : Metaphysics
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
While there has been agreement among followers of Aquinas that being insofar as it is being (being qua being) is the subject of metaphysics, there is not agreement on how this being qua being is to be understood, nor on how we come to know the being that is the object of metaphysical investigation. The topic of what being is, as the object of the science of metaphysics, and how to account for the "discovery" of the being of metaphysics have emerged as central problems for the contemporary retrieval of Aquinas and for the larger project of post-Leonine Thomism in general. This lack of agreement has hampered the retrieval of Aquinas's metaphysics. The collection of essays within The Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas is divided into three major parts: the first set of essays concerns the foundation of metaphysics within Thomism; the second set exemplifies the use of metaphysics in fundamental philosophical issues within Thomism; and the third set employs metaphysics in central theological issues. The Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas allows major scholars of the different types of Thomism to engage in a full-scale defense of their position, as well as expanding Thomistic metaphysics to the discipline of theology in important ways.

The Discovery Series

Author: Wanda E. Brunstetter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781624167515
Category : Absence and presumption of death
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Discovery

Author: P. J. Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781953271327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
When Eve Monroe was asked to work as the Archivist in the city she dreamed about, she couldn't say no. Her love of England was ingrained in her for as long as she could remember. Feeling immediately at home, Eve settles into London quickly, but when she stumbles upon an ancient and undiscovered manuscript, her life is throttled into the unknown. The discovery forces her closer to her new colleague, Malcolm Archer, and the attraction to him might be unwanted, but it is seemingly beyond her control. Malcolm never wanted anyone to get involved in his complicated life, but Eve fit into his world so seamlessly that he was left with no choice but to get close to her. As they team up together to research her discovery, they both realize that it will lead to a groundbreaking turn in history. Could myths and legends be true? Malcolm and Eve are driven to find the answers, but their pursuit turns dangerous when enemies are willing to destroy everything to get their hands on a magical piece of destiny that could change the world as they knew it.