Interview with Rollo May on Existential Therapy Video
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- Опубліковано 5 тра 2009
- Watch the full video at: www.psychotherapy.net/video/r...
Legendary existential psychotherapist Rollo May explores his own unique therapy style, reflects on his work with clients, and gets specific on what we can take and leave from other influential psychotherapists.
Rollo May was on our board and taught classes at our wonderful little college, World College West, in the north bay area in the 1970's. I was very blessed and lucky to study in tiny classes and discuss his thoughts with him.
Great!
I am finally reading The art of Counselling, and I must say its an amazing book. Its very clear and to the point, having studied counselling, this book is opening my eyes to how humans work, I should have read it while I was on the course, things would have been different.
My father started wearing turtlenecks after catching Rollo's "Thownness & Fallenness" at Colgate University in 1992. He wears them to this day. I can't hear May's voice without in some way relating it to this warm, convenient attire. Kudos.
I totally agree with him, I'm a patient going through therapy currently and I'm the one that's bored. I don't feel it's really helped me be a better person in any way or be more receptive of the world or certain aspects about myself. I think one of the problems now of days with psychotherapy is cognitive behavioral therapy! I feel it provides too simplistic an approach to "curing" depression and other issuses... Another issue I see is that current psychotherapists don't know enough about psychology in general but other matters that can contribute to a persons condition. I feel as though psychology has gone off to far from philosophy and lost a great deal because of it. You never hear of great psychologists of today, there are no more Freuds or Jungs. There aren't any real great intelligent thinkers like Freud or Jung contributing to the world or psychology. Those men were more then psychoanalysts, they were philosophers who had a larger view of the world, and the human condition than any plane old boring therapist now can fathom! Those men did more than talk people through their problems. I read about Freud's opinion on society being screwed up because we as humans are all so screwed up at the individual level that society as a collective whole would never be much better. This is something I believe and love. Freud wasn't afraid to step outside the box. Another thing that could be killing psychology is anti depressants and there excessive use. I'm on Zoloft which doesn't do much for me personally. I believe in a "talking cure". Psychiatrists are really just pill pushers.
I could talk about this for hours
Oh snap. CBT got served
That's great, wonderful, excellent, outstanding, awesome, superb, superior, magnificent, transcendent, wise, positive, inspiring, elevating, admirable, and fantastic, to say the least.
Well said Dr. May.
got Procura do Mito second hand in SP last week, excellent read
i feel strongly that we need to lose the whole notion of 'therapy' -- it assumes the 'patient' is 'sick' and in need of an 'expert' ; which it seems to me goes against the whole premise of existentialism -- the original existential perspective by Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (and Dostoyevsky, if you like) has been medical-ized and thus co-opted by professionals. I could go on but perhaps I've said enough...
I'm resonating with your words mister Diablo
You may interpret it that way, but the actual notion of 'therapy' doesn't do that at all. Counselors follow a Wellness Model of mental health, meaning their view is to help the client establish positive mental health to the greatest degree possible for them. This shifts the focus to achieving wellness, rather than 'curing an illness'. Your view resembles the medical model, which is what psychiatrists and psychologists use because they primarily diagnosis.