Otto Rank (1884–1939)

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1. Otto Rank

   Author of In Quest of the Hero, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero and Other Writings, Beyond Psychology

2. Rollo May

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

3. Alan Dundes

   Author of Study of Folklore, Cinderella: A Casebook, Interpreting Folklore

4. Joseph Campbell

   Author of The Masks of God: Occidental Mythology, The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension, Myths, Dreams, and Religion: Eleven Visions of Connection

5. Sigmund Freud

   Author of Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Future of an Illusion, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

6. Ernest Becker

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

7. Mircea Eliade

   Author of The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion, The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History, The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy

8. Ken Wilber

   Author of No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth, The Atman Project: A Transpersonal View of Human Development, The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad

9. Erich Neumann

   Author of The Origins and History of Consciousness (Mythos Books), Amor and Psyche (Mythos Books), Art and the Creative Unconscious

10. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of Language and Myth, The Myth of the State, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy

11. Stanislav Grof

    Author of The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives, The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychotherapy

12. Bruno Bettelheim

    Author of The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales, Freud and Man's Soul: An Important Re-Interpretation of Freudian Theory, The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age

13. Norman Oliver Brown

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

14. William Irwin Thompson

    Author of Time Falling Bodies Take to Light, Mythology, Sexuality & the Origins of Culture, Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science, Coming Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness

15. Edward F. Edinger

    Author of Ego and Archetype, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy

16. Linda Dégh

    Author of Hungarian Folktales: The Art of Zsuzsanna Palko (World Folktale Library)

17. Anaïs Nin

    Author of A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953, D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

18. Karen Horney

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

19. Jessie L. Weston

    Author of From Ritual to Romance

20. Erich Fromm

    Author of The Sane Society, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness