Neil Friedman has a Harvard Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. He has taught at Miles College (Birmingham, Alabama), Tuskegee Institute, Brandeis University and SUNY Stonybrook. Neil has been a college teacher, civil rights worker, workshop leader, writer and psychotherapist. He has a popular relationship-advice column on the internet at www.Relationship-Talk.com.

Neil is a certifying coordinator for The Focusing Institute and an editorial board member of The Focusing Connection. For more information about focusing go to www.focusing.org and www.focusingresources.com.

For fifteen years (1982-1997) Neil was a leader of the Opening The Heart workshop at Spring Hill Conference Center. For three years (1985-1988) he was also Co-Director of Spring Hill and helped that Center have thirteen more years of life until it finally succumbed in 1997. Neil considers the Heart Workshop and Spring Hill the finest work he has ever been associated with and still brings it to bear upon his therapy work.

Neil likes Woody Allen movies, coconut shrimp, and Coki beach in St. Thomas - among other things. Neil watches Law and Order re-runs, the Sopranos, Commander-in- Chief (with Geena Davis as President) and As Time Goes By (BBC). He loves the music of
Novella Nelson, Aaron Neville, Joan Baez, Don White, and Rodney Mashia. He
has lost forty pounds on a low-sodium diet. Modest and humble by nature, his main wish is that he were rich and famous, young and immortal :).