Gerald G May Book Review

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Gerald G May was an American psychiatrist and theologian, born in June 12, 1940 in Hillsdale, Michigan. He was the step brother of the existential Psychologist called Rollo May. Gerald May was married for forty-three years to Elizabeth Jane Clark whom he had three sons and a daughter. He graduated at Ohio Wesleyan University in 1962 where he received a medical degree from Wayne state university school of medicine in the year 19655. Mr. May then worked as an Air Force Psychiatrist in Vietnam where he became a conscientious objector. He later moved his family to Columbus, Maryland where he worked on staff treating patient at the spring Grove hospital Centre as well as the Patuxent correctional mental Centre of the Maryland State Prisons system. Moreover, Mr. May …show more content…
He was the author of many books and articles blending spirituality and psychology, including Addiction and Grace, Care of Mind or Care of Spirit, Will and Spirit, and The Dark Night of the Soul. Nevertheless, this book whose author is both spiritual and psychiatrist director has enabled readers like me to gather the simple of psychology as a religious and psychiatric. Reading this book enlightened my grasp that many psychotherapy does not view itself as facilitating the growth of persons in their expression of divine truth. Rather, they hope to inspire more efficient dwelling of its values. For instance, psychotherapy is additionally seeking to aid mankind’s capacity to satisfy wishes and needs which he or she is capable of reaching a feel of