Ernest Becker (1924–1974)

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1. Ernest Becker

   Author of The Denial of Death, Escape from Evil, The Birth and Death of Meaning

2. Rollo May

   Author of Love and Will, The Meaning of Anxiety, Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

3. R. D. Laing

   Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Knots, Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

4. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Fear of Freedom, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, Psychoanalysis and Religion

5. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

   Author of On Death and Dying, Death: The Final Stage of Growth (Human Development Books)

6. Norman Oliver Brown

   Author of Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, Love's Body

7. William James

   Author of The Varieties of Religious Experience

8. Peter L. Berger

   Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

9. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be

10. Karen Horney

    Author of Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization, Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis, The Neurotic Personality of Our Time

11. William Barrett

    Author of Irrational Man, The Illusion of Technique

12. Martin Buber

    Author of I And Thou

13. Abraham H. Maslow

    Author of Toward A Psychology of Being, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature

14. Michael Polanyi

    Author of Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy, The Tacit Dimension, Study of Man

15. Carl Jung

    Author of Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Symbols of Transformation, C.G. Jung Psychological Reflections : An Anthology of His Writings, 1905-1961

16. Erik H. Erikson

    Author of Childhood and Society, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

17. Anthony Storr

    Author of Solitude: A Return to the Self

18. Walter A. Kaufmann

    Author of Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

19. Alfred North Whitehead

    Author of Science and the Modern World, Adventures of Ideas, Modes of Thought

20. Irvin D. Yalom

    Author of Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy