A CRY UNHEARD
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"The 'Ewe' and the You"
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Brief Biographies

Norm Bradford, Ph.D.,
University of Minnesota
     Norman Bradford is a licensed psychologist whose expertise includes both the treatment of both Adults and Children.  Until his retirement in 1997, Dr. Bradford spent most of his career working within Academic settings, assisting in the training of both psychiatrists and psychologists, primarily within the State of Maryland. Between 1963 and 1991 he served on the Faculty in The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. For over twenty years he also served as a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University. Since 1990 he has served as an independent therapist with Life Care Health Associates.
     He has practiced individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy and group therapy both with adults and children in various residential treatment centers, hospitals, outpatient clinics, and private practice for almost forty years.
     Dr. Bradford is experienced with the treatment of a wide variety of diagnostic problems but prefers to work with children and adults on a more long-term basis with emotional issues and spiritual matters in daily life. His orientation is definitely spiritual and humanistic. His is an active member of both the Association for Humanistic Psychology and the Association for Transpersonal Psychology. Major professional interests have been the development of humanistic-spiritual methods and programs for youth in the abstinence from substance/alcohol. He has also fostered the development of a Dream Center aimed at educating the public regarding the importance of dreams. Dr. Bradford utilizes dreams and dream work as an important aspect of the therapeutic process with clients.
     Professor Bradford has been teaching psychology courses for almost forty years on the faculty of the University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University Evening College, Goucher College, Anne Arundel Community College, the College of Notre Dame in Maryland and the Humanistic Institute


Francis W. Craig, Ph.D.,
University of Tennessee, 1998


Herb Gross, M.D.,
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Dr. Gross is a professor emeritus from University of Maryland Medical School.  He is an experienced psychoanalyst and specializes in the initial evaluation and medical managment of a wide variety of adult and adolescent psychological disorders.


Ramesh Khurana, M.D.,


Tom Krajewski, M.D.,
University of Maryland Medical School


Eileen Lynch, M.S.,
Loyola-Maryland, 1986


James J. Lynch, Ph.D.email me
The Catholic University of America, 1965
   James J. Lynch., Ph.D. is the author of The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of Loneliness; (originally published by Basic Books, 1977); The Language of the Heart: The Human Body in Dialogue (originally published by Basic Books, 1985) and A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness (Bancroft Press, 2000). He is also coauthor of three additional books, and over ten chapters written in medical textbooks.  He has published over 100 research articles in peer reviewed medical journals. The Broken Heart gained notice from over 20 International and National television programs, dozens of National magazines (People, Time, Newsweek etc.), large number of newspaper commentaries and was translated into 10 languages. He was also voted "Outstanding Psychologist" in the State of Maryland by the Maryland Psychological Association. In addition he has been awarded the "Pavlovian Medal for Distinguished Research" by the Pavlovian Society of North America. Among the distinguished Board voting to bestow this award was the renowned psychologist, B. F. Skinner.  His research has been directed towards alerting both scientists and the public to the Medical Consequences of Human Loneliness. He has also spent almost four decades clarifying how loneliness contributes to a marked increased risk of developing premature coronary heart disease. He has pioneered research documenting how human dialogue acts as the elixir of life, and how dysfunctional dialogue can contribute to a wide variety of medical problems, including migraine headaches, vasovagal syncope, dysautonomia, hypertension and coronary heart disease. He has also pioneered a novel and highly successful treatment approach, labeled Interpersonal Psychophysiological Therapy to help reduce and eliminate medical problems that are exacerbated by problems with human dialogue.  
   He is a Board Member of the American Institute of Stress, on the staff of The Sinai Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation Program in Baltimore, and the Director of Life Care Health Associates in Towson, MD. For more than thirty years he served on the Medical School faculties of The Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Maryland Medical School. He currently lives in suburban Baltimore with his wife, Eileen.
   He studied at the Johns Hopkins University under W. Horsley Gantt, M.D., the last American student of the great Ivan P. Pavlov. He began his own teaching as a Instructor in Psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1965. In 1976 he was appointed as a Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical School. From 1976 through 1989 he directed the Center for the Study of Human Psychophysiology at that Medical School.   From 1989 until the present he has been Director of Life Care Health Associates, where he maintains a full-time practice along with his writing.


 

Tom Truss, Ph.D.,
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   Thomas T. Truss is a licensed psychologist. He has served on the adjunct Psychology faculty of Loyola College in Baltimore, as well as an Instructor in the Baltimore City Police Academy. Early in his career he taught at the High School Level, and after completing his PhD he served on the Adjunct teaching staff of the at the State University System in New York (SUNY).
   Dr. Truss specializes in treating patients suffering from alcohol and other substance abuse. He has had extensive experience serving as Clinical Director in a number of Addiction Treatment Programs over the past 25 years. Throughout his career he has also served in the Guidance and Counseling Departments at the High School level, and currently is serving as the Chairperson of a Guidance Department in a regional Baltimore Private High School He is also credentialed as a certified Professional Counselor.