9780393331776-0393331776-The Cry for Myth

The Cry for Myth

ISBN-13: 9780393331776
ISBN-10: 0393331776
Author: Rollo May
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 324 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780393331776
ISBN-10: 0393331776
Author: Rollo May
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback 324 pages

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The Cry for Myth (ISBN-13: 9780393331776 and ISBN-10: 0393331776), written by authors Rollo May, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1991. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Psychotherapy, TA & NLP (Psychology & Counseling, General, Psychology, Psychotherapy, TA & NLP, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Cry for Myth (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Psychotherapy, TA & NLP books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.41.

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Here are case studies in which myths have helped Dr. May's patients make sense out of an often senseless world.

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.

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