Rollo May challenges the idea that mental health is living without anxiety, believing it is essential to being human.
He convincingly proposes that Anxiety can impel personal change, as it is only by confronting and coping with it that self-realization can occur..
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 explores how it can relieve boredom, sharpen sensibilities, and produce the tension necessary to preserve human existence.
Rollo May challenges the idea that mental health is living without anxiety, believing it is essential to being human