Author Biography
Founder and developer of the Callahan Techniques(R) Thought Field Therapy, Roger J. Callahan, Ph.D., was a clinical psychologist. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Syracuse University. Dr. Callahan is author of: It Can Happen to You: The Practical Guide to Romantic Love (a Book-of-the-Month Club selection); The Callahan Anxiety Pictures (a projective test to measure anxiety) The Five Minute Phobia Cure (published in USA - Enterprise, France & Germany); The Anxiety Addiction Connection (published in USA, France & Germany); The Rapid Treatment of Panic, Agoraphobia and Anxiety (Doubleday); Why Do I Eat When I'm Not Hungry? (Avon); Stop the Nightmares of Trauma (Professional Press, USA and VAK in Germany), with Forward by Jack Canfield, co-author Chicken Soup for Soul(R) Series; And the newly released Tapping the Healer Within (Contemporary, McGraw-Hill). This latest book has been translated and is available in the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Chinese, French and soon to be Taiwan and Norway. Past President of the American Academy of Psychologists in Marital and Family Therapy and the Michigan Society of School Psychologists, Dr. Callahan has taught at the University of Michigan and Syracuse University. He was an Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University, a Research and Clinical Psychologists at Michigan's Wayne County Training School, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Psychotherapists Treating Addiction. Dr. Callahan has had private psychotherapy practices in Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, Indian Wells, and La Quinta, California. Dr. Callahan has demonstrated the Callahan Techniques(R) Thought Field Therapy on Radio and Television shows all over the country including Good Morning America, Cable Network News(CNN) and Evening Magazine, Regis Philbin, Tom Snyder, LEEZA, Jenny Jones, and Regis and Kelly as well as many others. Phil Donahue devoted an entire program to Dr. Callahan and his work on amouraphobia . Dr. Callahan founded the Thought Field Therapy Training Center in La Quinta, California (a Palm Springs community). The TFT Training Center conducts trainings in Callahan Techniques(R) TFT and publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Thought Field. Dr. Callahan was Chairman of the Board for the professional organization Association for Thought Field Therapy.
