ABSTRACT
The material that follows constitutes but a small sample of the ways in which Ralph L. Rosnow has, throughout his illustrious career, advanced and enriched our field by creatively bridging psychology with literature and the everyday experiences that occupying individuals. Although the examples discussed in this chapter are from Rosnow’s impressive oeuvre of publications, his dazzling capacity to connect literature and objects from people’s daily lives extends as well to the scores of talks and colloquia that he has given, to his considerable gifts as teacher and mentor, to the benefits he has bestowed on his clients in his capacity as consultant, and also, I expect, to departmental politics! He has, moreover, erected these linkages between psychology and the universe of metaphors with great wit, and has deftly avoided a slippage into trivia and meaninglessness. Finally, because most of his work in recent years has been in the domains of methodology, statistics, and quantitative psychology, his ability to lighten and make more digestible inherently complex material is all the more noteworthy and is, therefore, deserving of widespread emulation.
