The Renewal of Life

Rollo May speaks about paradoxes. To confront our anxiety is a way of the renewal of our lives. We must confront our despair if we are to experience renewal in life. Out of the balance between one\u27s freedom and one\u27s nature comes not only health in its dynamic sense but there comes also creativity. May also speaks of the paradox of authentic love arising from the fact that we know that someday we will die. These truths should give us a new approach to our values and meaning to our lives. This address was delivered in the spring of 1982 at Sacred Heart University as the first Dr. William H. Conley Charter Day Lecture

Freedom and destiny

286 p.Personal freedom is a central problem for modern men and women as well as for our society. Writing out of his long experience as a therapist, Rollo May, author of the groundbreaking Love and Will, shows how personal freedom is in daily crisis. Modern man has forgotten that personal freedom can be experienced only in juxtaposition with human destiny. The conscious freedom to think and feel and speak authentically is a uniquely human quality. Always in conflict with one's destiny, this freedom is the foundation of human values such as love, honesty, and courage. Without personal freedom there will be no lasting values in our culture. Yet destiny is the vital design of the universe expressed in each of us. May proposes the steps for our rediscovery of the relation between freedom and destiny. He emphasizes that both are intertwined and that one gives birth to the other. Yet the renewal of life can come only with a recovery of the polarity between freedom and destiny

On the relational dynamics of caring: a psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and power dimensions of women’s care work

Care is double-edged and paradoxical, inspiring a vast range of strong feelings in both care-givers and care-recipients. This paper draws on ideas about psychotherapeutic relationships to offer a theorisation of the complex emotional and power dynamics and imaginative geographies of care. Examining the humanistic approach developed by Carl Rogers as well as the psychoanalytic tradition, I advance an interpretation of psychotherapeutic practices that foregrounds the fundamental importance of the emotional and power-inflected relationship between practitioners and those with whom they work. I show how different traditions offer conceptualisations of the shape of therapeutic relationships that are highly relevant to consideration of the emotional and power dynamics of giving and receiving care. Against this background I discuss current debates about care, emotions and power, drawing especially on feminist and disability perspectives and arguing that psychotherapeutic approaches offer a powerful lens through which to understand the emotional and power dynamics of caring relationships. I conclude by emphasising how this theorisation helps to illuminate ubiquitous features of women’s care work

The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

INTRODUCTION Investment in Africa over the past year with regard to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) sequencing has led to a massive increase in the number of sequences, which, to date, exceeds 100,000 sequences generated to track the pandemic on the continent. These sequences have profoundly affected how public health officials in Africa have navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. RATIONALE We demonstrate how the first 100,000 SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Africa have helped monitor the epidemic on the continent, how genomic surveillance expanded over the course of the pandemic, and how we adapted our sequencing methods to deal with an evolving virus. Finally, we also examine how viral lineages have spread across the continent in a phylogeographic framework to gain insights into the underlying temporal and spatial transmission dynamics for several variants of concern (VOCs). RESULTS Our results indicate that the number of countries in Africa that can sequence the virus within their own borders is growing and that this is coupled with a shorter turnaround time from the time of sampling to sequence submission. Ongoing evolution necessitated the continual updating of primer sets, and, as a result, eight primer sets were designed in tandem with viral evolution and used to ensure effective sequencing of the virus. The pandemic unfolded through multiple waves of infection that were each driven by distinct genetic lineages, with B.1-like ancestral strains associated with the first pandemic wave of infections in 2020. Successive waves on the continent were fueled by different VOCs, with Alpha and Beta cocirculating in distinct spatial patterns during the second wave and Delta and Omicron affecting the whole continent during the third and fourth waves, respectively. Phylogeographic reconstruction points toward distinct differences in viral importation and exportation patterns associated with the Alpha, Beta, Delta, and Omicron variants and subvariants, when considering both Africa versus the rest of the world and viral dissemination within the continent. Our epidemiological and phylogenetic inferences therefore underscore the heterogeneous nature of the pandemic on the continent and highlight key insights and challenges, for instance, recognizing the limitations of low testing proportions. We also highlight the early warning capacity that genomic surveillance in Africa has had for the rest of the world with the detection of new lineages and variants, the most recent being the characterization of various Omicron subvariants. CONCLUSION Sustained investment for diagnostics and genomic surveillance in Africa is needed as the virus continues to evolve. This is important not only to help combat SARS-CoV-2 on the continent but also because it can be used as a platform to help address the many emerging and reemerging infectious disease threats in Africa. In particular, capacity building for local sequencing within countries or within the continent should be prioritized because this is generally associated with shorter turnaround times, providing the most benefit to local public health authorities tasked with pandemic response and mitigation and allowing for the fastest reaction to localized outbreaks. These investments are crucial for pandemic preparedness and response and will serve the health of the continent well into the 21st century

Man's search for himself

280 p.; 22 cm

Seni konseling

Yogyakartaxi, 226 p.; 21 cm

The art of counseling : Rollo May

Nashville247 p.; 21 c

Apakah anda cukup berani untuk creatif ? = the courage to create

xvi,163 hal .; 21 cm

Love and will

„Meilė ir valia“ – garsiausia R. May‘aus knyga. Joje autorius nagrinėja tą psichologinio skilimo būseną, kurią šiuolaikinis žmogus išgyvena atskyręs iki tol buvusius neatskiriamus dalykus – emocijas ir protą, seksą ir meilę. Remdamasis įtaigiais psichoterapinės praktikos pavyzdžiais, R. May‘us siūlo būdus, kaip įveikti apatiško cinizmo įšalą, persmelkusį daugelį žmonių, ir pasiekti būties pilnatvę. Jis siekia atskleisti tikrąją meilės ir valios prasmę, jų šaltinį ir padėti žmonėms atkurti rūpinimusi grįstus santykiusPsichologijos katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta