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 potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.

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 pro…

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 musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

In any discussion of religion and personality integration the question is not whether religion itself makes for health or neurosis, but what kind of religion a…

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.