Rollo May

Rollo May was a psychologist and author who brought anxiety, freedom, creativity, love, power, and responsibility into existential psychology. The Meaning of Anxiety treats anxiety as a response to threat, choice, and change rather than only a symptom. The Courage to Create argues that creativity requires confronting uncertainty and resistance.

Other books examine how freedom becomes meaningful through commitment. Freedom and Destiny considers choice alongside limits that cannot be willed away. Love and Will studies the fracture between intimacy, desire, and purposeful action, while Man's Search for Himself asks how a person develops an inner center amid social pressure. Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence turns to aggression and denied power. The Meaning of Anxiety provides the clinical foundation; The Courage to Create shows May's cultural reach, and Love and Will joins psychological and ethical concerns.