Tom Greening, PhD, Poet and Author, at EHI’s 8th Conference which celebrated EHI cofounder, Jim Bugental. He shares insight into his complicated relationship with Jim Bugental, his poetry, the motivation behind his often irreverent “pokes” at what he views as some of the precociousness of existential therapy. He also shares his thoughts on why he started poetry in answer to a couple of questions from Nader Shabahangi about how he first connected with poetry. As he describes, ‘that in the pain and distress of living” and “discovering that well, you don’t just have to be a victim…” “Are you the cause of your life and experience or at the effect of, the recipient of it?”
The Existential Humanistic community mourns the loss of Tom on May 23, 2023.
Tom’s most recent poetry books are available via The University Professor Press.
The Journal of Humanistic Psychology dedicated it’s January 2024 issue to the memory of Tom. Many colleagues and students of Tom’s contributed. Access the digital edition via Sage Publications website (account required) or try World Cat to see if a college near you has the journal in their reference section.
