Courage, the virtue of maturity - Courage to be one's self - A preface to love - Courage to see the truth - 8. The creative conscience - Adam and Prometheus - Religion-source of strength or weakness? - The creative use of the past - The person's power to do the valuing - 7.

Freedom and inner strength - The man who was put in a cage - Hatred and resentment as the price of denied freedom - What freedom is not - What freedom is - Freedom and structure - 'Choosing one's self' - 6. The struggle to be - Cutting the psychological umbilical cord - The struggle against mother - The struggle against one's own dependency - Stages in consciousness of self - pt. The experience of becoming a person - Consciousness of self-the unique mark of man - Self-contempt, a substitute for self-worth - Consciousness of self is not introversion - The experiencing of one's body and feelings - 4. The roots of our malady - The loss of the center of values in our society - The loss of the sense of self - The loss of our language for personal communication - 'Little we see in nature that is ours' - The loss of the sense of tragedy - pt. The loneliness and anxiety of modern man - The hollow people - Loneliness - Anxiety and the threat to the self - What is anxiety? - 2. Includes bibliographical references and index

And he shows how we can gain a real awareness of self that will bring us freedom and courage.-Adapted from dust jacket He points the way toward values and goals that can be depended on in a day when very little is secure. Writing with directness and simplicity, he speaks of the loss of certainties suffered in our rapidly changing society. He sheds light on some of the things that underlie our feelings of disturbance and conflict. He shows the ways in which we can stand against the insecurity of this age and find a center of strength within ourselves. Out of his experience in helping people work out their difficulties, May wrote this book in an effort to help the individual come to terms with himself.

Man's Search for Himself by Rollo May