It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentia…

The upshot is that the values and goals which provided a unifying center for previous centuries in the modern period no longer are cogent. We have not yet foun…

Along with the loss of the sense of self has gone a loss of our language for communicating deeply personal meanings to each other. This is one important side o…

'A rolling stone gathers no moss.' Try as I might I could not remember the meaning. At last I hazarded, 'Well, it means a person who's always active and never …

The moment a man begins to question the meaning and value of life, he is sick.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on…