Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to… - Rollo May

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized — and it may explode into violence.

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 of the loneliness now experienced by people in the Western world.

Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud, also brings back into the picture the understanding of man on the deeper and broader level — man as the being who is human. It is based on the assumption that it is possible to have a science of man which does not fragmentize man and destroy his humanity at the same moment as it studies him. It unites science and ontology.