Dr. Joshua Coleman is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists, and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families.
He is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post’s “Ask a Therapist” column and has also written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, NBC THINK, The Behavioral Scientist, CNN, MarketWatch, the San Francisco Chronicle, Greater Good Magazine, AEON, Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Variety, and more. He has delivered talks to the faculties at Harvard, the Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry, UC Irvine, and other academic institutions.
A frequent guest on the Today Show and NPR, he has also been featured on Sesame Street, Oprah, Dr. Phil, 20/20, Good Morning America, PBS, NYU Doctors Radio, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television.
Dr. Coleman is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and has written four books:
· The Rules of Estrangement (Random House)
· The Marriage Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin’s Press)
· The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin’s Press)
· When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don’t Get Along (HarperCollins)
His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, and Croatian.
He is also the co-editor, along with historian Stephanie Coontz, of seven online volumes of Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, a compendium of noteworthy research on the contemporary family, gender, sexuality, poverty, and work-family issues.
Dr. Coleman writes the popular Substack newsletter Family Troubles. You can register here: joshuacolemanphd.substack.com/subscribe
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