"May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist... Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined... Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence. "--Library Journal "Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery... There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate ... what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners, ' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner. "--Robert Coles, America