Abstract

PONTE, Carlos Roger Sales da  and  SOUSA, Hudsson Lima de. Critical reflexions concerning on existential psychology of Rollo May. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2011, vol.17, n.1, pp. 47-58. ISSN 1809-6867.

Assuming that Rollo May is a psychologist usually forgotten in the land of Brazil, this short theoretical study of going research aims to provide new knowledge of this eminent psychologist. To this end, we show a brief biographical sketch of May and a history of Humanistic Psychology in the U.S.; rescued some epistemological influences of his thinking, we describe the issues related to the concept of the Unconscious and the concept of human in May to provide some guidelines of Existential Psychology built for him.

Keywords : Rollo May; Existential psychology; Humanistic psychology; Epistemology of psychologies.

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