A young man came for psychotherapy because, though he was intellectually very competent and seemed superficially to be very successful, his spontaneity was almost completely blocked. Kitaptan ve kitapta değinilen yazarlardan ve kitaplardan öğrenebileceğimiz çok şey olduğunun düşünüyorum. Rahatsızlıkların kökeninden bahsederken, ressamlara, filozoflara tarihçilere uzanan bir yelpaze sunuyor Rollo May. Tremendous pride was exhibited in fascism, as everyone knows who has seen the pictures of the strutting Mussolini and psychopathic Hitler; but fascism is a development in people who are empty, anxious and despairing, and therefore seize on megalomaniac promises.

At times it was incredibly insightful; at other times, it was infuriatingly limited; and at yet other times, painstakingly plodding in the writing and analysis.Benim ise bu kitap hakkında en çok hoşuma giden şey salt psikolojik olarak değil de edebiyat, felsefe, sosyoloji ve hatta uluslararası ilişkilerden bile yararlanarak, sosyal bilimlerin hemen hemen her dalına değinerek ve psikolojiyi ayırmaktan ziyade dış unsurlarla birleştirerek yorumlaması. They crave after attention and respect, believing rather compulsively that these things will be sufficient for happiness and meaning.

Freedom means openness, a readiness to grow; it means being flexible, ready to change for the sake of greater human values. When Spinoza in the seventeenth century used the word reason, he meant an attitude toward life in which the mind united the emotions with the ethical goals and other aspects of the “whole man.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves. The painful insecurity on all sides gives us new incentive to ask, Is there perhaps some important source of guidance and strength we have overlooked? Human beings are capable not only of being nature, and being in nature, but in thinking of nature and their place within it.

It's a fairly short and breezy book just over 100 pages, and it hits several key points really hard and really well. I would much prefer formal books that retain a technical level of rigour to investigate on a more solemn note.Their “selves” are not merely a sum of “roles” that they should perform to be accepted by the group. bağımlılık, yaratıcı bilinç, cesaret, kendin olmak, sevgi, hafıza, zaman ve ruhsal zenginleşme üzerine bir kitap.

TheDeorhord by Hana Videen is a fascinating collection of medieval creatures large and small, and a delightful dive into Old English. Moving out from a protected, familiar place into new independence, from support to temporary isolation, while at the same time one feels one’s own anxiety and powerlessness.People are able to be self-aware, keep time, to learn from the past, plan for the future, use symbolic systems to make distinctions and communicate. Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude, and even at times are very frightened at the prospect of being alone. They don’t resent others or themselves nearly as much as they reject having their freedom taken away, feeling powerless to do anything about it. Now, I believe that given our digital and social media age, you might be able to follow the instragram account or YouTube channel of some “self-love” or “walking in your light” guru rather than take on this book. Individuals will constantly struggle to discover what they want, how they feel, and what they can do to live fully, because there are many external pressures that will prevent them from being aware.