“I Don’t Have Time to Die”

Abstract

In moving to California, May became a major force in the ongoing establishment of training programs and other aspects of humanistic psychology. He mentored a number of students who came to have important careers and developed an important friendship with Irvin Yalom. Within AHP, he engaged in a battle with advocates of “transpersonal psychology” because he thought they confused religion with psychology. He published two more major books, Freedom and Destiny and The Cry for Myth. And, after a problematic period in the wake of his divorce from Ingrid, he met and married Georgia Johnson, now Georgia Lee May. After two strokes, he begins to fail and, in 1994, dies a peaceful death in the company of his wife and Irvin Yalom.