The centennial of Rollo May’s birth follows quickly upon Abraham Maslow’s centenary celebration, the latter occasion marked by a series of moving remembrances compiled last year by Edward Hoffman. And so, in addition to a quite personal tribute to a revered mentor and friend, I intend also a broader reverie of sorts on adepts and acolytes and professional self-appraisal. It is a time for honoring founding fathers, mothers, and figures and, simultaneously, looking, collectively, within—what German psychiatry has called, aptly, the “truth-taking stare.”
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