Poems For and About Elders (Revised & Expanded Edition)

Tom Greening

Jun 2020 · University Professors Press

About this ebook

Tom Greening is a wonderful role model of an elder, poet, philosopher, and educator who shares personal, honest, and lyrical contemplations on later life issues. The poems in this collection grew out of his serving as a training director at AgeSong, his psychotherapy practice, and his own aging. With wit and humor, Dr. Greening guides us through many issues faced by elders, including those often not discussed. Through the poems, elders and those who love elders will be challenged and comforted while developing a deeper understanding of the aging process.

About the author

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.