Rollo May: The Discovery of Being, Lecture 4

This video is about existential psychotherapy, and more specifically about the importance of what Rollo May calls the "I am experience." In addition, this video explores the role of technique in existential psychotherapy.

[@jasonjones4036]

Thank you for your lectures and knowledge in these areas. Good stuff

[@JDSosa]

Thank you so much for this series of lectures, Doctor Dodson. As I mentioned to you before I hold a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology and I have been enjoying the context and the style of your lessons. Thank you so much for sharing them. Is there a way of finding your notes online, paying, or whatever way you share them?

[@wajman]

Hey Professor Dodson, I'm glad I came across your well-timed video. I'm a college student in California, and I'm currently self-reading Rollo May's Psychology and the Human Dilemma. I understand that freedom can be attained through practice and power (Albert Ellis and Nietzsche respectively). However, it seems impossible to ignore that we DO have irrational characteristics - "whether we could let ourselves see it or not." It feels a bit like building a sand castle near the sand. All of my effort towards being free can be wiped out by any dumb irrational force that comes from my brain... The example I like to use is doing pull-ups for rockclimbing. I can and have done 300 pullups a day (which is pretty normal for a decent rock-climber). So, let's say that I go to the pull-up bar and start doing my sets. I REALLY want to do the training without nonsense, but inevitably my body starts getting irrational after 10-20 pullups. I can usually get to 100 without too much trouble. However after this, the irrational force comes into full swing - "Hey, you've done 100. This is good enough. You'll stay at your current level which isn't bad at all." No amount of training can prevent this thought from arising... And, this kind of thought has a definite impact on the intensity of my effort. It is like someone shouting a insult at me; it weakens the effort I want to put in. In any case, I liked your response in the previous video that drives can be resisted for long periods of time.

[@robertmansfield8376]

Hey, Dodson, prepare your lecture with a vocabulary that condenses so much random babbling to specifics. So boring, and go buy a new shirt.

[@EricDodsonLectures]

You forgot to whine about my hat.