Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence
Book Details
- Publisher : W.W.Norton
- Published : 1998
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 288
- Category :
Existential therapy - Catalogue No : 12503
- ISBN 13 : 9780393317039
- ISBN 10 : 039331703X
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This study defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change, and innocence as the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtue. From these concepts, the author of this book suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil.
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Dr Rollo May (1909-1994) was one of the leading psychotherapists of the twentieth century, and the leading philosopher of existential psychology.
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