American existential psychologist who introduced European existentialism into American clinical psychology — particularly Heidegger and Kierkegaard — and wrote influential works on anxiety, love, and the daimonic.
The Meaning of Anxiety: the first modern psychological account of anxiety as a signal of threat to core values, not merely a symptom. Love and Will: the disintegration of love and will in modern America. The Courage to Create: creativity requires confronting anxiety. The daimonic: the internal force that can be either destructive or creative depending on integration.
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