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Professor Richard W. Wiseman was dedicated throughout his career to his students and to literature as the realm of deepest insight. He continually sought innovative links between literature and other disciplines such as philosophy, psychology and science as a means of revealing the human condition and finding pathways to the future. He was gravely concerned about the prospects of sustaining the planet due to the present course of humanity and its disassociation with self. He consequently devoted his later career to the study of the thinker Martin Heidegger, the poetry of Paul Celan, and the interactions of therapy. In 2003, Elder Academy Press published his book The Therapies of Literature, which was a life long work integrating the themes of literature, philosophy and therapy on a grand scale as it applies to the dis-ease of contemporary man.
His students are equally dedicated to sustaining the forward movement of Richard Wiseman's thought and are hosting the Richard Wiseman Conference on June 21, 2008 at the Pacific Institute. Students, colleagues and friends are invited to present and/or attend. More information will gradually become available at www.pacificinstitute.org, look under Events.
Professor Wiseman began his career at San Francisco State University in the German and Comparative Literature Departments in 1959. He received his B.A. from the University of Washington and completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He did postdoctoral work and research at the Sorbonne, Paris, the Thomas Mann Archives, and the C.G. Jung Institut in Zuerich. He studied also in New York at Columbia and Hunter College, receiving a Certificat from the University of Strasbourg and a Diplome d'Etudes from the University of Caen. In his later career he received an M.A. in Psychology at the Professional School of Psychology in San Francisco.
Professor Wiseman was fluent in German, French, Spanish and Italian, and had a strong reading knowledge of Russian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek and Latin. Professor Wiseman's teaching includes the C.G. Jung Institut at Kuesnacht/Zuerich and San Francisco State University where he was Professor of Foreign Languages and Literature as well as Deparment Chair of World and Comparative Literature. He offered extensive private seminars and workshops, as well as volunteered at Visiting Nurses and Hospice, and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. He helped cofound Pacific Institute for Counseling, Education and Research and was a long time board member before recently being name honorary board member.
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