{"product_id":"the-meaning-of-anxiety-9780393350876","title":"The Meaning of Anxiety","description":"\u003cp\u003eRollo May challenges the idea that \"mental health is living without anxiety,\" believing it is essential to being human. He explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence. May sees a link extending from anxiety to intelligence, creativity, and originality, and guides the reader away from destructive ways to positive ways of dealing with anxiety. He convincingly proposes that anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur.\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":50615086645522,"sku":"9780393350876","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_addad976-2628-4a30-a60e-0b5ff305b3c1.jpg?v=1732474908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-meaning-of-anxiety-9780393350876","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}