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This book was written against violence and indifference in current society. The author, a famous psychotherapist, analyzes the lost of meaning of love and will, replaced with indifference and indecision in this new schixoid society running away from affective commitment.Tags
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En la cultura actual, el amor ya no se aprecia como fuerza de motivación, como energía para adelantar en la vida, y la fuerza de voluntad, en otras épocas considerada como principal factor para decidir racionalmente qué hay que hacer, ha dejado paso a inoperantes e interminables cálculos sobre el decidir cómo decidir. En una época de radical transición como la nuestra no debemos conformarnos con los lamentos. Hay que ir más allá del pesimismo indiferente, buscando las fuentes de estas capacidades en nuestra propia conciencia y en la conciencia colectiva. Aunque estén obturadas, estas fuentes no están agotadas. Rollo May define la sociedad actual como «esquizoide», porque se evitan en medida creciente las relaciones show more afectivas. En su lugar aparece la apatía, fenómeno peligroso porque guarda una relación dialéctica con la violencia: Ésta es el último recurso para llenar el vacío de la falta de relación. El autor estudia a fondo los problemas del amor en la historia de la cultura, en la civilización actual, en las teorías psicosociales y psicoterapéuticas. También analiza en todas sus implicaciones la crisis de la voluntad y su relación con la incapacidad de desear, a la que define como enfermedad. A continuación relaciona ambas capacidades mostrando que en la mentalidad moderna parecen incompatibles. Sólo una nueva comprensión del amor y la voluntad permite volver a unirlas positivamente como potencial personal y motor de la sociedad. show less
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"The development of an existential psychology in America is in good part the work of Rollo May. He helped bring existentialism to psychology some fifteen years ago, and since then his impact has increased each year. As he says here, he isn't an existentialist in a cultist sense. In American psychology, the existential approach is part of a wider show more trend which includes many views" (Eugene T. Gendlin, Psychology Today). May's psychology is sometimes referred to as humanistic. He is one of the affirmative, "third force" American psychologists who are also critical of the society in which we live. Gendlin writes further: "In. . . Psychology and the Human Dilemma [1966], May offers a wealth of valid and stimulating ideas in a totally engaging and readable fashion. [The human dilemma is that] man is always both an active subject and a passive object ". . . May [says]: "Only in knowing ourselves as the determined ones are we free. This last sentence and his many similar discussions seem to mean that we can't help what happens, but only what attitude we take toward what happens. In fact, he means more than this---in taking an attitude toward what happens we change what happens." In late 1968, May was the subject of an article in the New York Times in which he was said to feel that "one sign that the modern age is dying is that its myths are dying." We are at present in a "limbo" between myths---the situation in which people become disoriented and "alienated." "In the new myths," he said, "I would think that racial variation will be seen as a positive value, that emphasis on one world will replace fragmented nationalism, and that things will be valued more for their intrinsic worth rather than in use---what they can be banked for." As a young man, May taught for a period at the American College in Saloniki, Greece. An ordained Congregational minister, May received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1949. He worked as supervisory and training analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and adjunct professor of clinical psychology at the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for many years. May was instrumental in establishing the Rollo May Center for Humanistic Studies at Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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