ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, is on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also the Founder and Director of the Cognitive Therapy Centers of New York and Connecticut, as well as the Schema Therapy Institute (institute@schematherapy.com). Dr. Young has lectured internationally on cognitive and schema therapies for the past 20 years. He has trained thousands of mental health professionals and is widely acclaimed for his outstanding teaching skills.

He is the founder of schema therapy, an integrative approach for longer-term disorders and for treatment-resistant patients, and has published widely in the fields of both cognitive and schema therapies, including two major books—Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Schema-Focused Approach, written for mental health professionals, and Reinventing Your Life (with Janet S. Klosko), a popular self-help book written for the general public. Dr. Young has also served as a consultant on several cognitive and schema therapy research grants, including the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Study of Depression, and on the editorial boards of the following journals: Cognitive Therapy and Research and Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Janet S. Klosko, PhD, is Codirector of the Cognitive Therapy Center of Long Island in Great Neck, New York (516-466-8485), and is a senior psychologist at the Schema Therapy Institute in Manhattan and Woodstock Women’s Health in Woodstock, New York (845-679-6699). She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany and interned at Brown University Medical School. While at SUNY, she worked with David H. Barlow, researching and treating anxiety disorders. Dr. Klosko has won the Albany Award for Excellence in Research and the Dissertation Award from the American Psychological Association Section on Clinical Psychology as a Science. She has numerous academic publications and is coauthor (with William Sanderson) of Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Depression, and (with Jeffrey E. Young) of the popular book Reinventing Your Life. She also has a master’s degree in English literature.

Marjorie E. Weishaar, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School (Marjorie_Weishaar@brown.edu), where she teaches cognitive therapy to psychiatry residents and to psychology interns and postdoctoral fellows. She has also received two teaching awards from Brown Medical School. Dr. Weishaar graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and earned three graduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. She was trained in cognitive therapy by Aaron T. Beck, and in schema therapy by Jeffrey E. Young. She is the author of Aaron T. Beck, a book on cognitive therapy and its founder, which was recently translated into Chinese. Dr. Weishaar lectures widely and has written numerous articles and book chapters on cognitive therapy, particularly in the area of suicide risk. She is currently in private practice in Providence, Rhode Island.

For general information about schema therapy:
Schema Therapy Institute
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New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-221-1818, ext. 5
E-mail: institute@schematherapy.com
Website: www.schematherapy.com