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Robert Firestone, PhD is the Glendon Association's consulting theorist. His innovative ideas related to psychotherapy, couple and family relationships, suicide and parenting are the cornerstone of Glendon's research and publications. He developed Voice Therapy, as well as the Firestone Assessment of Self-destructive Thoughts (FAST), a scale that assesses suicide potential. He is the author of several books including The Fantasy Bond, Voice Therapy, Combating Destructive Thought Processes and Compassionate Child Rearing.

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Robert M. Gordon, Psy.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the former Director of Intern Training and Associate Director of Postdoctoral Fellow Training at Rusk Rehabilitation. He is currently a consultant to the intern and postdoctoral fellowship training programs and a member of the American Psychological Association COVID Task Force on trauma and resilience. Dr. Gordon has specialties in the areas of neuropsychological and forensic testing and psychotherapy with children and adults with physical and learning disabilities and chronic illness. He has published in the areas of existential-relational approaches when working with patients with preexisting medical conditions during COVID-19, ethical issues with patients with neurological conditions, supervision, relational psychoanalysis, dream interpretation, pain management, and the use of projective testing in neuropsychology. He can be reached at Robert.Gordon@nyulangone.org.

Robert J. Lifton, MD, is a lecturer in psychiatry at Columbia University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at The City University of New York. His books include, most recently, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir (Free Press, Simon & Schuster, 2011), Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (University of North Carolina Press, 1991 [1968]) which won a National Book Award, Hiroshima in America: A Half-Century of Denial (Harper Perennial, 1996), and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (Basic Books, 1986).

Robert Jason Grant, EdD, is the creator of AutPlay® Therapy, an integrative family play therapy framework designed to help address the mental health needs of neurodivergent children and adolescents. Grant utilizes years of advanced training and his own lived neurodivergent experience to provide affirming services to children and their families and to create training programs for professionals and caregivers. In 2017, Dr. Grant was presented with the APT Service Award by the National Association for Play Therapy and the Play Therapist of the Year award in 2015 by the Missouri Association for Play Therapy. He is currently serving as past chair on the board of directors for the Association for Play Therapy and as a board member for the Digital Play Therapy program. He is also a part time instructor in the Play Therapy Certificate program at Mid America Nazarene University (MNU).  

Robert N. Johansen, PhD., is a member of the American Psychological Association and the co-director of the Cerritos Psychological Center, where he has been in practice for over forty years, specializing in couple’s therapy and supervising interns. Robert has coauthored two books on the new couple’s treatment model, Need Management Therapy and coauthored a professional journal article on the same model. He has taught at several universities and colleges including UCLA, and lectured at the Milton Erickson International Foundation, California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, NPR, ABC radio, University of California Educational TV, and continuing education at Alliant International University. He has been married for forty-one years and has two adult children and three grandchildren. He enjoys traveling with his wife, tennis, restauranting, and going to the theater. This essay is based on the book Need Management Therapy (NMT): A New Science of Love, Intimacy, and Relationships by the author, Robert N. Johansen and Todd W. Gaffney (2021, Archway Publishing).

Robert Taibbi, LCSW is in private practice and is the author of 11 books and over 300 articles. This article is adapted from his book, The Art of the First Session.

Robert Wubbolding, EdD is Professor of Counseling at Xavier University, Director of the Center for Reality Therapy in Cincinnati and Senior Faculty at the William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles. He has published 125 articles and book chapters, ten books and seven videos on reality therapy, and has taught reality therapy and choice theory all over the world.

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