Name Christopher Ryan Spouse Cacilda Jetha | Role Author | |
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Books Sex at Dawn, Business and Technical Communication: A Guide to Writing Professionally Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction Similar People Cacilda Jetha, Daniele Bolelli, Joe Rogan | ||
Christopher Ryan is an American author best known for co-authoring the book Sex at Dawn. He received a BA in English and American literature in 1984 and an MA and Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University, an accredited hybrid low-residency/online learning program based in San Francisco, CA twenty years later. He spent the intervening decades traveling around the world working odd jobs (e.g., gutting salmon in Alaska, teaching English to prostitutes in Bangkok and self-defense to land-reform activists in Mexico, managing commercial real-estate in New York’s Diamond District, helping Spanish physicians publish their research). His masters thesis examined difference in specific personality measures between working fashion models and the general public. His doctoral dissertation analyzes the prehistoric roots of human sexuality, and was guided by the psychologist, Stanley Krippner, a humanistic psychologist, with additional committee members Sabrina Zirkel and Jurgen W. Kremer.
Ryan gave a TED talk in February 2013, contributes to Psychology Today and has an interview podcast called Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan.
He is married to his sometime collaborator and co-author of Sex at Dawn, Cacilda Jetha.
