Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of the University of Memphis, maintains an active consulting practice, and directs the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition, which provides global online training in grief therapy. Prof. Neimeyer has published 37 books, including Living Beyond Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement and New Techniques of Grief Therapy, and serves as Editor of Death Studies. The author of over 600 publications, he has been listed in the Stanford University/Elsevier roster of Top 2% Scientists, with 57,968 citations to his work according to Google Scholar. Dr. Neimeyer is currently working to advance a more adequate theory of grieving as a meaning-making process. In recognition of his contributions, he has been made a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and given Lifetime Achievement Awards by the Association for Death Education and Counseling and the International Network on Personal Meaning.
Dr. Robert Neimeyer
Professor Emeritus of the University of Memphis (United States)
Area of interest
Grief and loss; Grief therapy
Website
https://www.portlandinstitute.org/
Membership
Association for Death Education and Counseling International Work Group on Death, Dying & Bereavement