Frank West

Frank West brings to his writing, to his teaching, and to his work with patients a wisdom, an authentic understanding, and a loving compassion that can only come after a lifetime of the sincerest kind of inner spiritual search. From his growing up poor in a Pennsylvania coal town during the Depression, through his war experiences during World War II, to his postwar search for inner peace and true contact with the miraculous, Frank offers his readers the opportunity to benefit, in a very real...See more

Frank West brings to his writing, to his teaching, and to his work with patients a wisdom, an authentic understanding, and a loving compassion that can only come after a lifetime of the sincerest kind of inner spiritual search. From his growing up poor in a Pennsylvania coal town during the Depression, through his war experiences during World War II, to his postwar search for inner peace and true contact with the miraculous, Frank offers his readers the opportunity to benefit, in a very real way, from his over eighty-five years of life experience. His search led him first to the Christian ministry, then to a career as a psychotherapist and family counselor, and finally to his discovery of the remarkable spiritual path known as A Course in Miracles. Frank maintained a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan for twenty-five years before relocating his practice to Guilford, Connecticut, in 1984. Soon after moving to Connecticut, he and his late wife, Martha, began studying A Course in Miracles, whose psychospiritual precepts have since become the cornerstone of his work with patients. In addition to writing and lecturing, he continues to maintain a full schedule of private and group therapy patients. It is Frank's belief that the way the therapist heals his patient-and by extension, all his "brothers and sisters"-is by doing the long, careful, and ultimately holy work of healing himself. That is the healing Frank offers all who come into contact with him. That, and his immovable faith that each and every one of us has already, in his own mind, the Love that is his true identity, and his true home. See less