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Dr. Wayne Dyer Biography
Wayne Walter Dyer was born on May 10, 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, in the USA.
His father, Melvin Dyer, was an alcoholic and abandoned the family soon after Wayne was born, and died shortly thereafter.
Wayne dyer biography
His mother, Hazel, turned Wayne and his brother Jim over to an orphanage when she could no longer take care of them. Indeed, he grew up in a Detroit orphanage. He graduated in 1958 from Denby High School and went into the Navy, where he served form 1958 to 1962.
Coming out of the Navy, he attended Wayne State University where he earned his degree in counseling.
He began his career as a high school guidance counselor, and then became a professor of counselor education at St.
John's University in New York.
Dyer began publishing articles in journals and had a successful private therapy practice, but his lectures at St. John’s began attracting a wide audience, among more than just students, because of his focus on positive thinking and motivation