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05/02/2026

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03/04/2026

03/01/2026

Now available at www.universityprofessorspress.com and most major book retailers.

02/23/2026

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08/11/2025

NEW RELEASE! Letters for My Father: Grief, Love, and Self-Exploration by Louis Hoffman is now avaialable.

Letters for My Father explores grieving and making sense of a relationship between a father and son while also being so much more. Written by the influential existential psychologist Louis Hoffman, who has worked extensively with grieving throughout his career as a psychotherapist, this is also a book of love, self-exploration, relational depth, and the world and realities that shaped his relationship with his father. As Hoffman journeys into grieving, he journeys into himself and into existence. The chapters include touching letters honoring his father, working through unresolved issues, seeking acceptance, exploring the realities of being part of a biracial family, and finding places of connection. Throughout, a holistic process of grieving is modeled. As Letters for My Father illustrates, the grieving process is not just about trying to “get over” a loss. Many losses, such as the loss of a parent, are something we never get over but rather integrate and learn to live with in new and sometimes vibrant ways. Hoffman demonstrates that one can find a way to live with grief in a way that includes beauty, joy, and preserved connection alongside the pain.

Any grieving includes a journey into oneself, which Hoffman does with exquisite transparency and honesty. In these letters, he finds places of connection and similarity as well as places of disconnect and differences. Both are part of his healing process and deepening his connection with his father. As he shares, through writing these letters he has found a way to preserve meaning and relationship and to even grow closer with his father. Hoffman also investigates how the process of grieving and writing these letters helped strengthen and center his connection with himself while returning to his lifelong commitment to living with relational depth.

Letters are also written to family members, colleagues, mentees, and others, illuminating the impact his father had on people surrounding him while engaging in a communal grieving process. While reading, keep some tissues handy as Letters for My Father is sure to bring tears and prompt self-reflection from the reader.

07/01/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Frank Gruber-McCallister on the publication of his new book, Radical Healing: No Wellness Without Justice. The book focuses on a critique of the role of capitalist ideology in inflicting a wide-range of adverse impacts on people, particularly those who have been marginalize, exploited, and oppressed. In addition, it examines the close relationship between capitalism and fascism and the dangers that this poses. There is currently stark evidence of how the excesses of greed, competition, and narcissism encouraged by capitalism are causing widespread suffering and fueling a climate catastrophe. Like the recent COVID-19 pandemic, these disasters are not only raising the awareness of millions of individual of the failures of capitalism, but contributing to significant physical and psychological affliction. In light of this, it is imperative for psychologists and other health care providers to first to acknowledge the ways in which capitalism has informed their beliefs and values and second to recognize how the actual basis of many of the problems experienced by those they serve have their roots in discrimination, exploitation, and oppression caused by capitalism. What is needed is a radical approach to healing that moves beyond the overly individualistic focus of capitalism and explains how systemic injustices must be eliminated to attain individual and collective liberation. The book advocates for the role of psychologists to advance social change and socialism as an alternative to capitalism.

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04/24/2025

University Professors Press is now in Audible! Check out our first 2 audiobooks on offer right now for only $14.99.

04/23/2025

Wound Care by Rich Furman is now available on Audiobook!

Anyone who has been wounded will resonate deeply with . Through mostly short, flash length essays that are part poetry, part narrative, Rich Furman brings the reader on an emotional journey traveling the full array of emotions: sadness, joy, grief, contentment, melancholy, and glee. A book that...

04/20/2025

Now available as an audiobook!

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04/06/2025

Check out the University Professors Press sale! 20% off select titles, including The Polarized Mind, Eros & Psyche (Vols 1 & 2), Shadows & Light (Vols 1 & 2), and more!!

11/29/2024

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