Connoisseurs of Suffering: Poetry for the Journey to Meaning
About this ebook
The contributors to Connoisseurs of Suffering include award-winning poets and authors as well as psychologists and other mental health workers. The poems are powerful, provocative, and often quite raw with pain and meaning. While the poems will not alleviate your suffering, they will help you feel less alone. As Dave Elkins wisely says in the Foreword, "Life is indeed difficult but it's a whole lot better when we listen, really listen, to one another's pain... and care."
About the author
Jason Dias, PsyD, teaches psychology from high school to graduate level, including at Saybrook University. A co-founder of the Zhi Mian Institute for International Existential Psychology, he also works with therapists in nations that lack a well-developed infrastructure for counseling and psychotherapy. He writes extensively, including some academic book chapters, but mostly with the goal of bringing existential psychology and philosophy out of academia and into wider, more accessible arenas. This includes novels, short stories, and poetry, as well as a long-standing column for aNewDomain.
Louis Hoffman, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Humanistic Counseling and Psychological Association (www.rmhcpa.org). He has been recognized as a fellow of the American Psychological Association and five of its division (1, 10, 32, 36, 52) for his contribution to the field of professional psychology. Dr. Hoffman is an avid writer with over 15 books and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (Senior International Editor), The Humanistic Psychologist, the Journal of Constructivist Psychology, and Janus Head. He is also a licensed psychologist in practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
