David Rosen, Lost in Aotearoa: Finding My Way Home/ Nancy Wellever, Plutionium, Gold & the Underworld/ Mary Locke Crofts, Connection Through Creation

 
David Rosen, MD, a Jungian Analyst, is the holder of the McMillan Professorship in Analytical Psychology, Professor of Humanities in Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at Texas A&M University Spirit of Haiku, co-authored with Joel Weishaus(North Atlantic Books); Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity (Nicolas-Hays); Evolution of the Psyche, co-authored with Michael Luebbert (Praeger)Mary Locke Crofts, PhD Connection Through Creation In my dissertation, Down into the Abyss, Up into the Shelter: My Journey to the Rock Art/ists of the Lower Pecos Region of Texas, I intertwine rock art scholarship, experience of place, and creative expression. The result responses of poetry and story unveil mythic, archetypal motifs underlying ancient rock art, the desert canyonland where it is found, and its generations of inhabitants. Mary Locke Crofts' abiding love of story and interest in narrative led to careers as a literature teacher, a storyteller, and a mythologist. Her love of west Texas landscape led her to Langtry, Texas, where she wrote her dis