In this week's personality class a lot of information about Rollo May was covered. I know a little bit about Rollo May from a counseling theories class I once took. But it was interesting to hear more about him and to find out that there is a whole chapter in the text about him. I was unaware that May is considered to be the father of Amercian existential psychology, which focuses on the difference of the abstract truth and what is existentially real. I also found it pretty interesting that May believed the conciousness of self is a unique component of a human being. May believed that the self consicousness allows a person to differ from themselves and the rest of the world, to learn from our past, to plan for the future, to see oneself as others do, and to have feelings of empathy towards other people. May also believed that self conciousness is vulnerable to anxiety and inward crisis, which is why it becomes important to develop an indentity apart from our parent's and forebears (Engler, 2005). May believed that a person has to consciously choose to go through the process of self actualization and that selfhood originates in a social context and grows through interpersonal relations. May focused on the concept of the self because he believed it was essential when trying to understand the different experiences that people go through. I think May has an interesting theory about selfhood, which is an interesting concept to talk about because I think it can be interpreted in many ways by different people.