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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393350878
ISBN-139780393350876
eBay Product ID (ePID)202497712
Product Key Features
Book TitleMeaning of Anxiety
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicPsychopathology / Anxieties & Phobias
IllustratorYes
GenrePsychology
AuthorRollo May
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight14.7 Oz
Item Length0.8 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal157.3
SynopsisRollo May challenges the idea that "mental health is living without anxiety," believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the reader away from destructive ways to positive ways of dealing with anxiety. He convincingly proposes that anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur., In this revised edition of his classic work--the first modern book on anxiety following Freud and Kierkegaard--psychologist Rollo May brings order and lucidity to the subject of anxiety., Rollo May challenges the idea that mental health is living without anxiety, believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the reader away from destructive ways to positive ways of dealing with anxiety. He convincingly proposes that anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur.