Rollo May Quotes: Top 40+ Notable Quotes By Rollo May, The Father Of American Existential Psychotherapy

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The legendary American psychologist Rollo May was also known as the Father of American Existential Psychotherapy’. In the early days of his career, he worked as an English teacher in Greece and attended seminars conducted by the famous psychoanalyst Alfred Adler during his holidays. These seminars encouraged him to study theology and he completed his Bachelors in Divinity. On his return to the U.S he was offered the position of a Congregationalist minister. He resigned from his position in a couple of years to study psychology and was the first student to be awarded a Ph.D. in clinical psychology by the University of Columbia. He further went on to teach in various top schools of the country and wrote many books on psychology. He was awarded for some books like ‘Love and Will’ which brought him the ‘Ralph Waldo Emerson Award’ for humane scholarship. His most acclaimed book was ‘Existence’ which introduced the concept of existential psychology. He was awarded the ‘American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award’ for ‘Lifetime Contributions to Professional Psychology’.