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About the Authors

	Leigh McCullough, PhD, is an Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School, Director of the Psychotherapy Research Program at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a visiting professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Trondheim, Norway). She was the 1996 Voorhees Distinguished Professor at the Menninger Clinic and received the 1996 Michael Franz Basch Award from the Silvan Tomkins Institute for her contributions to the exploration of affect in psychotherapy. Dr. McCullough is on the editorial board of the journal Psychotherapy Research and of the Journal of Brief Therapy, and conducts training seminars in the Affect Phobia model worldwide. She is the author of several other books, including Changing Character: Short-Term Anxiety-Regulating Psychotherapy for Restructuring Defenses, Affects, and Attachment.
	Nat Kuhn, MD, PhD, is a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an Assistant Director of Dr. McCullough’s Psychotherapy Research Program. He has taught, supervised, and written extensively on the Affect Phobia model, among others. Dr. Kuhn has a private psychotherapy and psychiatry practice in the Boston area. Before attending medical school he was a mathematician, and he has published on a variety of subjects.
	Stuart Andrews, PhD, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, and an Assistant Director of Dr. McCullough's Psychotherapy Research Program. He has presented at international conferences and conducted training seminars on Affect Phobia Therapy. He has taught and supervised clinicians and students, and published articles on psychotherapy integration and short-term therapy. Mr. Andrews is also the Director of the Center for Families in Transition, where his program, "For the Sake of the Children," is mandated in a number of communities in Massachusetts for parents going through divorce.
	Amelia Kaplan graduated from Harvard University with a BA in history and literature of America. While there, she was editor of Let's Go: USA and Canada 1995. Since then, she has worked in organizational psychology with the Social Capital Group, and engaged in cognitive neuroscience research at Columbia University. She is currently a graduate student in clinical psychology at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, where she pursues interests in mind-body psychology, STDP, group therapy, and human sexuality. Ms. Kaplan recently coauthored a chapter on short-term therapy. She travels spiritedly in her free time.
	Jonathan Wolf, MD, was a member of the Psychotherapy Research Program for three years. After graduating from Boston University School of Medicine, he entered the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program.
	Cara Lanza Hurley, PhD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from Loyola University Chicago in 2005. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship at Northwestern University Medical School/Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she worked with individual adults and was designated Chief Fellow for her post-doctoral fellowship year there. In addition to her experience in providing general therapy, Dr. Hurley has worked extensively with chronically and terminally ill patients and their families. She maintains research interests in psychosocial oncology, emotion and health, and psychotherapy process and outcome.

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