{"product_id":"the-cry-for-myth-9780393331776","title":"The Cry for Myth","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt happens almost daily in a therapist's office. A patient, recalling a person, an event, an emotion, quite unexpectedly supplies a link from a life in the present to one of the durable myths of our culture. In this moment, the myth becomes a mirror, revealing to the patient the source of disturbance and pain in a pattern of behavior that often stretches a year or longer. The healing process begins. The myth, \"eternity breaking into time\" in Rollo Mays's words, becomes the focal point of recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough tracing myths - whether from classical Greece and Dante's Middle Ages, European legend (Faust and the prototype of Sleeping Beauty), or contemporary American life (Jay Gatsby) -- and relating them to the dreams and associations he encounters in his own practice, Dr. May provides meaning and structure for all who seek direction in a morally confusing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, perhaps the finest achievement of a great therapist, Rollo May writes with \"the grace, wit, and style: for which he recently received the Gold Medal of the American Psychological Society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMay, Rollo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRollo May\u003c\/strong\u003e (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eLove and Will\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Courage to Create\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMan's Search for Himself\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Meaning of Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePsychology and the Human Dilemma\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726079463698,"sku":"9780393331776","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f5d218c6-ce48-40f3-8c6f-31ddb947a042.jpg?v=1734853859","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cry-for-myth-9780393331776","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}