Rollo May

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5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,147x

2. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,178x

3. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

   · 2017 · cited 5,481x

4. Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics

   · 1976 · cited 5,466x

5. Infectious Diseases of Humans

   · 1991 · cited 5,315x

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Quotes

• “Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.”
• “We are more apt to feel depressed by the perpetually smiling individual than the one who is honestly sad. If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.”
• “Therapy isn't curing somebody of something; it is a means of helping a person explore himself, his life, his consciousness. My purpose as a therapist is to find out what it means to be human. Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, "This is me and the world be damned!" Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society — Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.”
• “One does not become fully human painlessly.”
• “True religion, namely a fundamental affirmation of the meaning of life, is something without which no human being can be healthy in personality. . . . What happens to mental health when this meaning which religion gives is absent? In other words, what is the effect of atheism on personality? . . . I have been startled by the fact that practically every genuine atheist with whom I have dealt has exhibited unmistakable neurotic tendencies.”
• “Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1909-04-21 ) April 21, 1909, Ada, Ohio , U.S.

Died

October 22, 1994 (1994-10-22) (aged 85), Tiburon, California , U.S.

Education

Oberlin College ( BA ) Union Theological Seminary ( BDiv ) Columbia University ( PhD )

Occupations

Psychologist Author

Known for

Love and Will (1969)

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