May enrolled in graduate psychology study at Teachers College of Columbia University to become a clinical psychologist. His chief mentor was Otto Klinenberg, who wrote about racism in the social sciences.
From 1938-1940, May was the young minister of this Congregational church in northern New Jersey, a reasonable commute to New York City. Newly married with twin daughters, he was quite unhappy in this position. It catalyzed his decision to become a professional psychologist and he never gain served in a religious capacity.
May became a divinity student at this liberal Protestant seminary, where he studied with the German emigre theologian Paul Tillich. He became May's important mentor, and they also became close friends.
During the summers of 1932 and 1933, May took seminars with Adler in Vienna. He greatly inspired May's interest in personality growth and counseling, the themes of his first two books.
May enrolled at what was then the Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Though bored by his classes, he enjoyed cofounding and writing for a student newsletter called simply THE STUDENT.
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