The Art of Counseling by Rollo May, the father of American psychology, existentialist, was for many years the only book dedicated to those who, while not wishing to become a psychologist or psychotherapist, has a job that requires some knowledge of the human personality.
Advising others, either at school, religious, medical or business, requires a deep empathy and understanding of the nature and internal tensions of the personality, the ability to accept and respect others without false morality, the humility not to impose their lifestyle choices.
With the wisdom, simplicity and the deep human warmth that characterize it, the author explains how the task of the counselor is to promote the development and utilization of potential customers, helping them overcome those problems which prevent persons to express themselves fully and freely in the outside world.
Having dwelt on the characteristics of healthy and balanced personality - freedom, individuality , social integration and religious tension -
May describes the key aspects of the process distinguishing four stages of counseling:
make contact, to establish the relationship , confession of the disorder and interpretation.
The final stage of overcoming the problem, the real transformation of the personality, it is only to the customer: the counselor can only guide them, with empathy and respect, to regain the freedom to be himself.
Rollo May began his studies in Vienna and he completed his doctorate in educational psychology and the analysis in New York. In addition to physician, is a training analyst and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology. He has taught at Princeton and Harvard. The critics and the public have welcomed the unanimous his contributions as a scholar and pioneer of psychotherapy.
The final stage of overcoming the problem, the real transformation of the personality, it is only to the customer: the counselor can only guide them, with empathy and respect, to regain the freedom to be himself.
Rollo May began his studies in Vienna and he completed his doctorate in educational psychology and the analysis in New York. In addition to physician, is a training analyst and supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology. He has taught at Princeton and Harvard. The critics and the public have welcomed the unanimous his contributions as a scholar and pioneer of psychotherapy.
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