The meaning of anxiety

Rollo May did an interview for TV ("Thinking Allowed" with Jeffrey Mishlove) where he expressed criticisms of the new age woo, and pointing out the value of anxiety. This can be found on YouTube.

This book discussed the intrapsychic implications of anxiety. It draws much of its analysis on the phenomenon of anxiety from the philosophical (specifically Kierkegaard's), psychoanalytic, and cultural perspectives.

About halfway through, and I've gotten a good, helpful taste of the author's thoughts on anxiety, primarily that it is a sign of needed change and POWER THROUGH, that anxiety is a sign that something needs to shift. I needed that.