Our Authors

Stephanie Barshay, MSCC

Stephanie Barshay is a Licensed Professional Counselor of Mental Health. She is also a Nationally Certified Gambling Counselor (NCGC-II). Ms. Barshay has lectured nationally on gambling addiction. As a Board Member of the National Association of Forensic Counselors, she co-authored the NAFC's gambling certification program.

Robert Biswas-Diener, Dr. Philos.

Robert Biswas-Diener has a reputation in the world of positive psychology as being a researcher who is able to collect hard-to-get data. As the "Indiana Jones of positive psychology," Robert's studies have taken him to such far flung destinations as Greenland, Spain, Kenya, Israel, and India, where he has worked with remote groups of people traditionally overlooked by researchers.

"When I tell people my job is traveling the world and studying happiness, it tends to raise a few eyebrows! But even better than being a psychologist who gets to go to far off places is being able to share my experiences with other people. I have always been excited by the prospect of translating my expertise about positivity into practical tools people can use to be more productive and live the lives they want."

Robert is a subjective well-being researcher who has published dozens of articles on happiness, empathy, and character strengths in prestigious psychological journals.

WEB LINKS
www.intentionalhappiness.com

Ron Faber, Ph.D.

Ron Faber is a professor of advertising and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. He is a leading expert on compulsive buying and has been researching and writing on this topic for 25 years.

His research in a variety of areas has been widely published in psychiatry, psychology, consumer behavior, advertising, marketing, and communication journals.

WEB LINKS
apps.cla.umn.edu/directory/profiles/faber001

Adrian Furnham, Dr. Philos.

Adrian Furnham is a professor of psychology at University College London. He earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford.

Dr. Furnham is a leading researcher and writer on money-related topics. He has authored or co-authored over 750 peer-reviewed journal articles and 57 books, many on money and economic issues, including The Psychology of Money with Michael Argyle.

In addition to being a profilic researcher and writer, Dr. Furnham lectures internationally, is on the editorial board of a number of international journals as well as being past President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences.

WEB LINKS
adrianfurnham.com

Allen Kanner, Ph.D.

Allen D. Kanner, Ph.D., is a Berkeley child, family, couples, and adult psychologist with over 25 years experience. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1981, was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and staff psychologist at Children's Hospital at Stanford. He has taught at a number of graduate schools in the Bay Area and was an associate faculty at the Wright Institute in Berkeley.

Since the early 1990's Dr. Kanner has been a leader in the field of ecopsychology and has been engaged in the fight against the commercialization of childhood. In 1997, Utne Reader chose him as one of the nation's top ten activist psychotherapists for his work in ecopsychology. In 2000 he co-founded the national advocacy group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. He is co-editor of Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic Society, and Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Currently, he is writing a column for Tikkun Magazine on the corporatized society.

WEB LINKS
www.commercialfreechildhood.org

Tim Kasser, Ph.D.

After receiving his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Rochester, Tim Kasser accepted a position at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he is currently Professor and Chair of Psychology. He has authored over sixty scientific articles and book chapters on materialism, values, goals, and quality of life, among other topics.

Tim's first book, The High Price of Materialism, was published by MIT Press in 2002. His second book (co-edited with Allen D. Kanner), Psychology and Consumer Culture, was released by the American Psychological Association in 2004. His third book (co-authored with Tom Crompton) is titled Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity (WWF-UK, 2009). Tim also works with activist groups that try to protect children from commercialization and that encourage a more "inwardly rich" lifestyle than what is offered by consumerism.

Tim lives with his wife, two sons, and assorted animals in the Western Illinois countryside.

WEB LINKS
www.knox.edu/Profile-Index/Faculty/Kasser-Tim.html
faculty.knox.edu/tkasser/scholarship.html

Kathleen Burns Kingsbury, LMHC, CPCC

Kathleen Burns Kingsbury is a unique mental health professional having expertise working with both eating disorders and financial psychology. Kathleen co-authored the internationally published book Weight Wisdom: Affirmations to Free You From Food and Body Concerns and recently published the Creating Wealth from the Inside Out Workbook.

She is the founder of the South Shore Eating Disorders Collaborative in Massachusetts, and serves as an Adjunct Professor at Bentley University teaching graduate levels courses on wealth and financial psychology.

WEB LINKS
www.kbkwealthconnection.com

David Krueger, M.D.

David Krueger, M.D. formerly practiced and taught psychiatry and psychoanalysis as a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine, as a training and supervising analyst at Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, and as a faculty member at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington DC.

He has authored sixteen trade and professional books and numerous scientific papers. His most recent book, The Secret Language of Money, is a Business Bestseller and has been translated into 10 languages. Currently, Dr. Krueger is an Executive Mentor Coach and CEO of Mentor Path.

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Beyond his professional endeavors, David is a husband, father and owner of a ranch just outside Houston.

WEB LINKS
www.TheSecretLanguageofMoney.com
www.MentorPath.com

Joe Lowrance, Psy.D.

Joe Lowrance is a licensed clinical psychologist working in private practice in Atlanta. Dr. Lowrance has a longstanding interest in financial psychology. Beyond his clinical work, Joe is a member of the Georgia Consortium for Personal Financial Literacy, on the editorial board of the Journal of Financial Therapy, and an associate producer of the upcoming documentary film Money and Life.

Dr. Lowrance is the developer of www.MoneyandMyLife.com, a website dedicated to finacial psychology education, and healthier money attitudes and behaviors. Joe is also the president of www.FinancialPsychologyCeus.com.

WEB LINKS
www.MoneyandMyLife.com
www.financialpsychologyceus.com

Cecilia Mikalac, MD

Cecilia Mikalac is a psychiatrist with a full time practice in Massachusetts, a member of the Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, and the author of Managing Money in Outpatient Psychiatry: Practice guidelines from accounting to ethics.

"I'm interested in both the logistics and ethics of money. I struggled with the former when starting my practice, talking to many other practitioners, some of whom were reluctant to share their experiences and current practices. I resolved that others should not have to hunt for information the way I did so I began teaching money courses at the APA (American Psychiatric Association) annual meeting, which later led to the book. The fact that practitioners are paid compels sound financial management while the fiduciary and transference aspects of treatment compel incorporation of ethical guidelines into fiscal practice. Ethics becomes not a theoretical concept but one we use every day. I hope others take up the call to teach, write and talk about ethics and money whenever they can. In this way managing money in practice will become demystified and clarity will reign."

Gayle Porter, Ph.D.

Gayle Porter is a Professor of Management at Rutgers University and an author and consultant on topics of workplace performance; she is a recognized expert in the topic of work addiction. Gayle's previous industry experience includes technical work in the oil and gas industry and finance and accounting positions with a Fortune 500 company. Her training programs and employee development work span multiple industries in both service and manufacturing environments.

Gayle received her Ph.D. in Management and Human Resources from The Ohio State University. At Rutgers she now teaches courses in Organization Change and Development, Social Responsibility of Business, International Human Resource Management, and Employee Development.

WEB LINKS
www.camden.rutgers.edu/~gporter/