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<span class="h2">About Dr. Gould</span>
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Certified psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and former head of Community Psychiatry and Outpatient Psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Gould has pioneered the use of online therapy focusing on stress management in an effort to make the benefits of therapy accessible and affordable to anyone who needs it. He was acknowledged by the Smithsonian institute as a pioneer in the field. His work has been featured on national television (ABC, CBS and FOX) and covered in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Bariatric Times, Prevention, Psychology Today, Good Housekeeping, MedHelp and MSN Health. He is the author of two books <i>Transformations</i> and <i>Shrink Yourself</i>.<br /><br />
<b>Papers & Publications</b><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Reengineering Mental Health." In Curry, W. (Ed.), Reengineering Health, The American College of Physician Executives, Tampa, Florida, 1998<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "The Use of Computers in Therapy." In Trabin, T. and Freeman, M. (Eds.), The Computerization of Behavioral Healthcare, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1996<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Development, Problem Solving, and Generalized Learning: The Therapeutic Learning Program (TLP)." In Miller, M., Hammond, K., and Hile, M.. (Eds.), Mental Health Computing: Computers and Medicine, Springer, 1995<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Brief Psychotherapy and Adult Development and Computer Assisted Therapy in an HMO Setting." In Mental Health and Managed Care, American Psychiatric Press, Inc., 1992<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Clinical Lessons From Adult Development, Nemiroff, A. and Colarusso, C. A. (Eds.), New Dimensions in Adult Development, Basic Books, Inc., New York, New York, 1990<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Therapeutic Learning Program (TLP): Computer Assisted short-term Psychotherapy." In Talking to Strangers: Mediated Therapeutic Ablex Publishing Company, Norwood, New Jersey, l990<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "The Therapeutic Learning Program." In Mezirow, J. (Ed.), Adult Learning, New York, New York, 1990<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., Colby, K. M., M.D., and Aronson, G., M.D., "Some Pros and Cons of Computer-Assisted Psychotherapy." In The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Williams & Wilkins, 1989<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Adulthood." In Kaplan, H. I., M.D. and Sadock, B. J., M.D. (Eds.), Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Vol.1, Fifth Edition, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, Maryland, l989<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "The Therapeutic Learning Program (TLP), A Computer-Assisted Short-Term Treatment Program." In Computers in Psychiatry/Psychology, September 1986<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Aging and Alcoholism." The 26th meeting of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New Approaches in Psychoanalysis, December 1982<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Recovery From Childhood." The University of Kansas, Division of Continuing Education, 3rd National Conference on the Adult Life Cycle: From Theory to Practice-Developing Through Relationships, November 1982<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Life Transitions as a Challenge to Learning From Experience: Breaking Specific Stress Patterns." New Perspectives on Life Transition and Adult Learning: Implications for Practice, A National Conference for Adult Educators. Teachers College, Columbia University, November, 1982<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., and Davis, Stanley M., "Three Vice Presidents in Mid-Life." In the Harvard Business Review, July-August 1981<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "The Phases of Adult Life: A Study in Developmental Psychology." In Readings of Adult Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives, (2nd Edition), Harper and Row, New York, 1981<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Psychoanalytic Theory of Adulthood Consciousness." In Greenspan, S. I. and Pollack, G. H. (Eds.), The Course of Life/III: Adulthood and the Aging Process. Adelphi, Maryland: National Institute of Mental Health<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Transformations in Mid-Life." In New York University Education Quarterly, New York,1980<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Transformations During Adult Years." In Smelzer and Erickson (Eds.), Themes of Love and Work in Adulthood, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Developmental Tasks: Men at Mid-Life." In Generations, Western Gerontological Society, Summer, 1979<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., Transformations: Growth and Change in Adult Life, Simon Schuster, New York, New York, l978<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Self Tolerance." In Psychology Today, February, l975<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "The Phases of Adult Life: Study in Developmental Psychology." In The American Journal of Psychiatry, November 1972<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Preventative Psychiatry and the Psychoanalytic Field Theory of Reality." In The Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, April 1970<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., Emergencies in a Psychiatric International Psychiatry Clinics, Vol.3, No. 4, 1967<br /><br />
Gould, Roger L., "Psychological Motivation in Stapes Surgery." In Transactions, American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, 1967<br /><br /></span>
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