Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
ISBN-13:
9780393317039
ISBN-10:
039331703X
Author:
Rollo May
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
284 pages
Category:
Applied Psychology
,
Psychology & Counseling
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ISBN-13:
9780393317039
ISBN-10:
039331703X
Author:
Rollo May
Publication date:
1998
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
284 pages
Category:
Applied Psychology
,
Psychology & Counseling
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Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence (ISBN-13: 9780393317039 and ISBN-10: 039331703X), written by authors
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Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society.Rollo May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that Dr. May sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil.
Dr. May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective.
Dr. May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective.
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