Tom Greening earned a BA from Yale University, spent a year in Vienna on a Fulbright Fellowship, and attended graduate school at the University of Michigan, earning a PhD in 1958. He is Professor Emeritus from Saybrook University, Clinical Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), past Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and a poet. His mentors included Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Jim Bugental, and Rollo May. He has been in private practice since 1958. Dr. Greening has numerous other books and publications including Words Against the Void; Our Last Walk: Using Poetry for Grieving and Remembering our Pets (with Louis Hoffman and Michael Moats); Nasreddin the Psychologist, a book of droll stories about a wise fool; and Animals I Have Known.