Keynotes
Stephanie Coontz, MA
Stephanie Coontz teaches family history at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and is Co-Chair of the Council on Contemporary Families. Her numerous books include A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960’s; the award-winning Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage; and The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap.
Coontz has testified about her research before the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families in Washington, DC, appeared on The Colbert Report, the Today Show, and Oprah Winfrey, and published scores of articles in national newspapers, as well as professional journals, such Family Therapy Magazine and Journal of Marriage and Family. In 2004, Coontz received the Council on Contemporary Families first-ever “Visionary Leadership” Award.
Copies of recent articles and other activities are available at www.stephaniecoontz.com
Diana Fosha, PhD
Diana Fosha is the developer of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and founder and director of the AEDP Institute. With an interest in the phenomenology of experience, Diana is on the cutting edge of transformational theory and practice. Changing how we think about change, she is opening up exciting possibilities for what can happen in psychotherapy.
Diana Fosha is the author of The Transforming Power of Affect: A Model for Accelerated Change (Basic Books, 2000), and first editor, with Dan Siegel and Marion Solomon, of The Healing Power of Emotion: Affective Neuroscience, Development, & Clinical Practice (Norton, 2009), and of papers and chapters on healing transformational processes in experiential psychotherapy and trauma treatment. A DVD of her AEDP work with a patient has been released by APA, as part of their Systems of Psychotherapy Video Series (APA, 2006), and another one is in the works. She has done workshops, telecourses, and trainings nationally and internationally. Many of her papers are available through the AEDP website at www.aedpinstitute.com.
Diana lives in New York City where she has her clinical practice. Her heroes include Charles Darwin, William James and Patti Smith.
Dan Hughes, PhD
For most of his professional life, Dan Hughes has been a clinician specializing in the treatment of foster and adopted children and youth with severe emotional and behavioral problems, secondary to abuse, neglect and multiple losses. His treatment is family-centered, facilitating attachment security for the child. Dan borrowed heavily from attachment, intersubjectivity, and trauma theories and research to develop a model of treatment that he calls Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. DDP gradually became applied to less severe problems within any family. Dan is the author of a number of books and articles, including Attachment-Focused Family Therapy Workbook (2011). Dan provides therapist training internationally. He also provides ongoing supervision and consultation to various clinicians and agencies.
Susan Johnson, EdD
Susan Johnson is a researcher, professor and a leading innovator in the field of couple therapy and the science of adult bonding. Sue is a founder and primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT). She holds professorships at the University of Ottawa in Canada and at Alliant International University in San Diego, California. She is also the Director of the Ottawa Couple and Family Institute and the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (www.iceeft.com), which has 18 affiliated centers in North America and Europe. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and recipient of key awards in her field.
Dr. Johnson has created an extensive popular program of professional training for health professionals in couple interventions and has worked with institutions such as the US Military to create programs for couples dealing with traumatic stress. Dr. Johnson has an active media presence, for example, the CBC radio show, Ideas, recently featured her work on love and bonding and can be accessed on the website, www.holdmetight.com.
Sue’s passions are her family, her work, and dancing tango.
Phillip R. Shaver, PhD
Phillip R. Shaver is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis. He has also served on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University, the University of Denver, and SUNY at Buffalo. He has published over 270 scholarly articles and book chapters, and has coauthored or co-edited numerous books including In Search of Intimacy; Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes; Attachment in Adulthood; Handbook of Attachment; Prosocial Motives, Emotions, and Behavior; and Human Aggression and Violence. His research deals with attachment theory, close relationships, emotion, and personality development. He is a member of the editorial boards of several journals and a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. He has served as executive officer of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and president of the International Association for Relationship Research, from which he received a Distinguished Career Award in 2002 and an International Mentoring Award in 2010.
