Rollo May (1909–1994)

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1. Rollo May

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

2. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Art of Loving, The Fear of Freedom, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

3. Carl Jung

   Author of Man and his Symbols, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, The Undiscovered Self

4. Paul Tillich

   Author of The Courage to Be, The Shaking of the Foundations, Theology of Culture (Galaxy Books)

5. James Hillman

   Author of The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy--And the World's Getting Worse

6. Erik H. Erikson

   Author of Childhood and Society, Identity: Youth and Crisis, The Life Cycle Completed

7. Abraham H. Maslow

   Author of Toward A Psychology of Being, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences

8. Karen Horney

   Author of Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Toward Self-Realization, Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neurosis, Feminine Psychology (The Norton Library)

9. R. D. Laing

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

10. Irvin D. Yalom

    Author of Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy, Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Existential Psychotherapy

11. Alice Miller

    Author of The drama of the gifted child, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child, The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

12. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    Author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, The Evolving Self

13. Carl R. Rogers

    Author of On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, A Way of Being, Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups

14. Ernest Becker

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

15. Anthony Storr

    Author of Solitude: A Return to the Self, The Dynamics of Creation, Human Aggression

16. Thomas Moore

    Author of Care of the Soul : A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life, Soul Mates

17. Norman Oliver Brown

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

18. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

    Author of The Phenomenon of Man, The Divine Milieu, The future of man

19. Viktor Frankl

    Author of The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy (Meridian), Psychotherapy and Existentialism: Selected Papers on Logotherapy

20. Joseph Campbell

    Author of Myths to Live By, Transformations of Myth Through Time, The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension