The Healing Spirit of Haiku

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The Healing Spirit of Haiku beings with a brief history of haiku, although it is not a book about haiku. Rather, it is haibun of the psyche, an exchange of poetry and prose between two old friends who set out to accomplish a soulful journey together.

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Dr. David H. Rosen is a physician, psychiatrist, and Jungian analyst. The vast array of his interests include finding meaning in suffering; spirituality as it relates to healing; dreams; all kinds of creativity, especially visual art and haiku; and practicing what he preaches.<br><br> Rosen is the author of eight books, including<i>The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity; The Healing Spirit of Haiku</i> with co-author Joel Weishaus;<i>Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul through Creativity</i> (now in its third edition) written after interviewing survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge, and treating many suicidally depressed patients;<i>Medicine as Human Experience</i> with co-author Dr David Reiser, a classic in the field. Rosen's books have been translated into many languages.<br><br> The initial holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology at Texas A&amp;M University, Rosen hosts the Fay Lectures and edits the Fay Books in Analytical (Jungian) Psychology. Though retired, he is Affiliate Professor in Psychiatry at the Oregon Health&amp; Science University.<br><br> Joel Weishaus was born in New York. He edited<i>On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing</i> (1971). His translation of the<i>Ch'an Buddhist Oxherding: A Reworking of the Zen Text</i> was published in 1971. He also wrote the Introduction and Notes to Thomas Merton's<i>Woods, Shore, Desert</i> (1983). Weishaus was an Adjunct Curator at the University of New Mexico's Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, and a Writer-in-Residence at UNM's Center for Southwest Research. His book,<i>The Healing Spirit of Haiku</i>, co-authored with David Rosen and illustrated by Arthur Okamura, was published in 2004, and republished by Wipf and Stock in 2014. Weishaus'<i>Feels Like Home Again: Collected Poems</i> was published in 2014. Weishaus was Visiting Faculty at Portland State University (2003-09) and a Research Fellow at The University of California, Santa Barbara (2011-12). He is presently Artist-in-Residence at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA. Having published over forty book reviews, essays, and critiques, Weishaus is also noted as a Digital Literary Artist.

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