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Len Holdstock, PhD, has studied and worked in South Africa, the USA and the Netherlands. At the time of his retirement in 1999 he was professor of Clinical Psychology at the Vrije ...view moreLen Holdstock, PhD, has studied and worked in South Africa, the USA and the Netherlands. At the time of his retirement in 1999 he was professor of Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He has published widely within and outside the field of psychology; presented papers and conducted workshops in archetypal psychology and Person-
Centred therapy in various parts of the world. In psychology his major publications have been in the areas of brain and sleep research, personality and psychotherapy theory, as well as critical theory and cultural psychology.<\p>
He has done extensive work with the indigenous healers of South Africa and endeavoured, not only to Africanise psychology in that country, but the educational system as well. Even in post-apartheid South Africa reconsideration and reshaping of existing curricula and teaching methodologies in terms of African values, are necessary. He believes that sub-Saharan Africa has a great deal to offer in establishing a humane new world order. His last book, Re-examining psychology: Critical perspectives and African insights, Routledge, 2000, addresses the role psychology needs to play in creating universal cultural awareness. Although he focuses primarily on the cultural unawareness in the Western world with respect to sub-Saharan Africa, recent conflicts have pointed out similar shortcomings in the West with respect to Islamic culture. Holdstock has also co-edited a book on Western and Buddhist psychology, Eburon, 1996.
In addition to his publications in psychology he has published on art and education: Transpersonal Art (1986) and Education for a new nation (1987). The present poetry volume is his first experiential publication. It can best be described as his bibliotherapy in which he processes his grief during the first 20 months following the death of his wife, his love of 50 years.view less