Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson is a writer who lives with his family on a beach in New Zealand. His book When Elephants Weep became an international best seller, as was Dogs Never Lie About Love. Since then he has published 8 more books about animals.
Masson has been a professor at several universities in Canada and America. After serving as Projects Director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, he wrote a series of books critical of psychiatry and therapy. In the 1990s he turned his attention to animals, and in particular, their emotional lives. Writing When Elephants Weep turned him into a vegetarian. Writing The Pig Who Sang to the Moon turned him into a vegan (a topic he has written about in The Face on Your Plate).
His next book will be about the psychology of apex predators (humans, orcas, wolves, bears and the big cats), the us/them phenomenon, the origins of sympathy and the ecology of evil. He is still thinking about this topic, and welcomes your views.
Photo by Joseph Avery
My first blog post: Do we know anything about intelligence in dogs or humans? http://jeffreymasson.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/hello-world/ More »
Coming in Fall 2010
Jeff's new book, The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving, examines the extent to which there has been mutual reinforcement between dogs and humans of the positive emotions such as empathy, sympathy, compassion and love from living with dogs.
Out Now
"Intelligent, absorbing and very easy to digest, this is an essential book for any person who thinks and/or eats."
- Debra Ginsberg See also review by Kim Stallwood
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's website is dedicated to the emotional lives of animals, vegetarianism, veganism (the ethics of food), animal rights, and human-animal interactions.
Painting of Jeff and family on their beach in New Zealand, by Carina Koning
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