Professional and Educational Experience

Clinical Experience:

  • Director, Eating Disorders Center, Chico Community Hospital
  • Independent Practice of Clinical Psychology, Lafayette, CA
  • Clinical Psychologist, York Clinic, Guy’s Hospital, London, England
  • Clinical Psychologist, Counseling Center, California State University, Chico
  • Clinical Psychologist, Sutter-Yuba Mental Health
  • Clinical Psychology Intern, V.A. Hospitals, Martinsburg, WV, Washington, DC, & Perry Point, MD

Academic Positions

  • Professor of Psychology (tenured), California State University, Chico
  • Visiting Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, United Medical & Dental Schools, University of London, England

Education and License:

  • California Psychology License 4018
  • Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), Catholic University of America (APA approved program)
  • B.A. (Psychology), State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook

Author

Books:

  • Body Intelligence: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, and Feel Great About Your Body Without Dieting! (McGraw-Hill, 2006)
  • Emotional Eating: What to Know Before Starting Another Diet (Jossey-Bass, 2001) – Book-of-the-Month Club Selection
  • To Have and To Hold: How to Take Off the Weight When Marriage Puts On the Pounds (Kensington, 1997)
  • Behavioral Approaches to Weight Control (Springer, 1977) – Behavioral Sciences Book Service Selection

Representative Weight Control Articles:

  • On the Futility of Dieting, Medscape General Medicine, 2005
  • Dieting craze is just that – crazy, San Francisco Chronicle, 2005
  • Analogies and comparisons in the cognitive-behavioral treatment of eating disorders, Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 1996

Representative Emotional Eating Articles:

  • Marital dynamics and weight regulation, The California Psychologist, 2002
  • Childhood sexual experience and bulimia, Addictive Behaviors, 1991, with Grace Lucido
  • Boredom and eating in obese and non-obese individuals, Addictive Behaviors, 1977, with Shawn Stinson

Honors

  • Finalist for Best Wellness Book, Books for a Better Life Competition, 2005
  • Professional Achievement Honor, California State University, Chico, 1982

Membership in Professional Organizations

  • American Psychological Association – Division of Clinical Psychology, Division of Media Psychology
  • British Psychological Society – Foreign Affiliate
  • The Obesity Society (NAASO) – Fellow
  • California Psychological Association – Board of Directors
  • Contra Costa Psychological Association – Board of Directors
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation – Professional Member