Miles Groth


Dr. Miles Groth is an American psychologist and philosopher.

Background

Educated at Franklin and Marshall College, Duquesne University and Fordham University, he has taught psychology and philosophy at St. Vincent College and Wagner College. He is Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Wagner College.

Authorship

Groth is the author of three books about Martin Heidegger: Preparatory Thinking in Heidegger's Teaching, The Voice that Thinks: Heidegger Studies and Translating Heidegger, as well as a series of articles on existential analysis.
He is the author of several chapters in books on psychotherapy, and numerous articles and book reviews in psychology and philosophy journals. He is the author of After Psychotherapy and Medard Boss and the Promise of Therapy.
He is also the author of Pericopes.

Editorship

As founding editor of Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies and general editor of the International Journal of Men's Health, he has advanced the interdisciplinary area known as male studies. He has lectured on the topic of boys' and men's well-being in Australia and Canada, and Germany as well as the United States. He is founding editor of New Male Studies: An International Journal.

Activism

In 2013 Miles Groth gave a lecture at the University of Toronto titled "Caring About University Men - Why We Need Campus Men’s Centres in a Time of Crisis". There were mixed reactions to this. A "Men and Boys in Crisis" rally held the following day at 11am in Queen's Park by men's rights activists was disrupted by Bash Back! protesters from University of Toronto's OPIRG group. They had prepared via a workshop held the previous day." He is co-editor of Engaging College Men: Discovering What Works and Why.