Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social, emotional and moral values the person identifies with himself. And here we find that a main source of anxiety, particularly in the younger generation, is that they do not have viable values available in the culture on the basis of which they can relate to their world. The anxiety which is inescapable in an age in which values are so radically in transition is a central cause of apathy … such prolonged anxiety tends to develop into lack of feeling and the experience of depersonalization.


p. 42 - Psychology and the Human Dilemma (1967)

Rollo May Quotes

Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social,...

Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social,...

Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social,...

Anxiety occurs because of a threat to the values a person identifies with his existence as a self … most anxiety comes from a threat to social,...