Dr. Michael Ruth

In addition to his 25-year writing career, Dr. Michael Ruth is a counselor/psychotherapist in private practice for more than 23 years. He was born in Harlan County, Kentucky, but he grew up in East Tennessee, at the foot of the magnificent Smoky Mountains, where he still lives with his wife Susan and in close proximity to their now-grown children and new grandson. Dr. Ruth holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history, theology, and counseling, and his doctorate is specifically a Doctor...See more

In addition to his 25-year writing career, Dr. Michael Ruth is a counselor/psychotherapist in private practice for more than 23 years. He was born in Harlan County, Kentucky, but he grew up in East Tennessee, at the foot of the magnificent Smoky Mountains, where he still lives with his wife Susan and in close proximity to their now-grown children and new grandson. Dr. Ruth holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history, theology, and counseling, and his doctorate is specifically a Doctor of Philosophy in religion and society - with a counseling concentration. His doctoral dissertation - Virulent Personality Disorder: A Proposal for the Clinical Classification of Pathological Evil as a Psychiatric Disorder - received an award of excellence from Oxford Graduate School. He went on to publish his first book, Shadow Work: A New Guide to Spiritual and Psychological Growth, in 1999. Since then he has written on the subject of personal growth as well as the developmental stages of childhood, and he serves on the book review board for The Family, a professional family therapy journal. Having taught high school Ancient and U. S. History, Mike's a history buff to boot. So, in addition to this being a personal project, the extensive research required for Memory of a Miner was right up his alley! See less