Bio: Robert W. Firestone, PhD, Lisa A. Firestone, PhD, Joyce Catlett, MA
Robert W. Firestone, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author and researcher. He has focused extensively on the defenses constructed during childhood, which impair the ability of adults to sustain intimate relationships. He was engaged in private practice from the time he received his PhD in 1957 until 1979. Over this time he developed his initial concepts on schizophrenia and applying these to a theory of neurosis. His major publications include The Fantasy Bond, Compassionate Child-Rearing and Fear of Intimacy. He has developed a therapeutic methodology described in Voice Therapy, Suicide and the Inner Voice and Combating Destructive Thought Processes. He has been a consulting theorist with the Glendon Association since 1979.Lisa A. Firestone, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara Graduate School of Education. She is involved in clinical training and research related to the assessment of suicide and violence potential. She has authored The Firestone Assessment of Self-Destructive Thoughts (FAST; coauthored with Robert W. Firestone), Voices in Suicide: The Relationship Between Self-Destructive Thoughts and Self-Destructive Lifestyles, The Treatment of Sylvia Plath, and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. She is the director of research and education at the Glendon Association in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Firestone received her PhD from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1991.
Joyce Catlett, MA, author and lecturer has collaborated with Robert W. Firestone in writing 10 books and has co produced 37 educational videos for the Glendon Association. She developed the Compassionate Child-Rearing Parent Education Program, a child abuse prevention curriculum that is being used in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. She lectures and conducts continuing education workshops at universities and mental health facilities throughout the United States and Canada.