Raised in Iowa, I got my undergraduate education at the State University of Iowa, and my graduate training in clinical social work at the University of Chicago.  My first job out of graduate school was at the Public Health Service Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, working with drug addicts and other psychiatric patients and their families. I went there because of a direct Commission as  Lieutenant in the Commissioned Corps of the U. S. Public Health Service.  It  gave me first-hand experience with people who needed hospitalization to facilitate their treatment.  After two years there, I left the Commissioned Corps to become Chief Psychiatric Social Worker at an outpatient mental health clinic designed to help patients returning from mental hospitals to live in the community.

Following a year there, I moved to Dallas, where I have been ever since.  In Dallas, I worked for three years at a United Fund agency, Family Guidance Center (now Child and Family Guidance).  There, I sharpened my  skills in individual and family therapy, and with adolescents.  Following that, I went into full-time private practice.  As part of that practice, I have consulted to a variety of agencies, residential treatment centers, and schools.  I also helped start the first suicide prevention call-in program in Dallas.

My own psychoanalysis has been very important in my professional development.  In my view, most of us go into this field, not only to help others, but also to help ourselves.  Hence, personal psychotherapy is an essential ingrediant in the training and maturing of a good therapist.  Indeed, our ability to help others is often strongly influenced by how much we have been able help ourselves.  My own therapy has also given me a good idea of what it feels like to be a patient, and what it takes to make important changes.

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