The Meaning of Anxiety

This is a landmark book — the first modern American treatment of anxiety as a subject of serious psychological inquiry — and it still holds up. Rollo May's argument that anxiety is a signal pointing toward what you value most, rather than a malfunction to be fixed, reframes the entire conversation in a way that remains genuinely useful decades later. Dense in places, but intellectually serious readers interested in the psychology of anxiety will find it worth the effort.