GERALD C. DAVISON is Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern California, where he was also Director of Clinical Training from 1979 to 1984 and Chair of the Department from 1984 to 1990. Previously he was on the psychology faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1996-1979). He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Stanford. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and a past president of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He served two terms on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance. In 1988 Davison received an outstanding achievement award from APA's Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility, in 1989 was recipient of the Albert S. Raubenheimer Distinguished Faculty Award from USC's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and in 1993 won the university-wide USC Associate Award for Excellence in Teaching. His book Clinical Behavior Therapy, co-authored in 1976 with Marvin Goldfried and reissued in an expanded edition in 1994, is one of two publications that have been recognized as Citation Classics by the Social Sciences Citation Index. He is on the the editorial board of Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Research, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, and Journal of Psychotherapy Integration. His current research program focuses on the relationships between cognition and a variety of behavioral and emotional problems. In addition to his teaching and research, he is a practicing clinical psychologist. JOHN M. NEALE is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he regularly teaches the undergraduate course in abnormal psychology. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. His internship in clinical psychology was as a Fellow in Medical Psychology at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. In 1975 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, England. In 1974 he won the American Psychological Association's Early Career Award for his research on cognitive processes in schizophrenia. In 1991 he won a Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association's Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology. He has been on the editorial boards of several journals and has been associate editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Besides his numerous articles in professional journals, he has published books on the effects of television on violence, case studies in abnormal psychology, and psychological influences on health. Schizophrenia is a major focus of his research and for the past several years he has been studying the symptom of flat affect. He also conducts research on the influence of stress on health and is currently investigating how coping moderates this relationship. Back to top home * book * authors * faculty resources * student resources * link & outlines