The Healing Spirit of Haiku

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.

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. Rosen is the author of eight books, including The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity; The Healing Spirit of Haiku with co-author Joel Weishaus; Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul through Creativity (now in its third edition) written after interviewing survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge, and treating many suicidally depressed patients; Medicine as Human Experience with co-author Dr David Reiser, a classic in the field. Rosen's books have been translated into many languages. The initial holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology at Texas A&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 & Science University. Through Rosenberry Books, Ms Katz's work has been seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Chicago Institute of Art, Washington National Cathedral, etc. and recognized by Design Observer of the Winterhouse Institute. Diane is the author of On All My Holy Mountain: A Modern Fraktur and Apples Dipped in Honey: A Jewish ABC. She has illustrated numerous books including Purple: A Parable, The Stone House, Garden Snippets, and Pieces of History: Quilt Patterns from the North Carolina Museum of History.

Joel Weishaus was born in New York. He edited On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing (1971). His translation of the Ch'an Buddhist Oxherding: A Reworking of the Zen Text was published in 1971. He also wrote the Introduction and Notes to Thomas Merton's Woods, Shore, Desert (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, The Healing Spirit of Haiku, co-authored with David Rosen and illustrated by Arthur Okamura, was published in 2004, and republished by Wipf and Stock in 2014. Weishaus' Feels Like Home Again: Collected Poems 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.