Occupation Author Name Susan Campbell | Role Author | |
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Born July 16, 1941 (age 83) ( 1941-07-16 ) USA Residence Sebastopol, California, United States Books Getting Real: 21 Truth Skills You Need to Live an Authentic Life |
Susan M. Campbell, Ph.D. (born July 16, 1941) is an American self-help author.
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Biography
Campbell earned her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Massachusetts in 1967, and remained as a member of that school’s Graduate Faculty until 1977, when joined Saybrook University in San Francisco where she holds an adjunct faculty appointment. She was also on the faculty of the unaccredited International University of Professional Studies. Since 1967 she has also pursued a career as a professional speaker and a consultant and trainer. She is also President of Getting Real Resources, a coaching and training company.
Her work has been featured in magazines including New Woman, Psychology Today, Self, Harvard Business Review, Seventeen, Men's Health, New Age, Fast Company, and Yoga Journal, and she has been a guest on national TV talk shows such as Dr. Dean Edell, CNNs NewsNight, and Good Morning America, and has guest lectured at the Harvard, Stanford, and UCLA business schools.
Getting Real
Her most recent work, described in her best-selling book, Getting Real and her more recent Truth in Dating, and Saying Whats Real, centers on using honest communication for personal healing and expanded self-awareness. The roots of this work are in Buddhist psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Sensory Awareness, Psychoanalysis, and Jungian psychology.