Cloe Madanes, PhD, FAPA
Cloe Madanes is recognized internationally as an innovator in both family and brief therapy. She has written five books that are classics in the field: Strategic Family Therapy; Behind the One-Way Mirror; Sex, Love, and Violence; The Secret Meaning of Money; and The Violence of Men. Dr. Madanes is Director of the Family Therapy Institute of Washington D.C., Director of the Robbins-Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention in La Jolla, Calif., Director of Training for Alternative Behavioral Services in Norfolk, Va. and Director of the Family Therapy Center of Maryland. She offers workshops on therapy and the whole range of psychopathology. She has presented her work at professional conferences all over the United States, Europe and South America, and has given keynote addresses for American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy, National Association of Social Workers, Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference, Erickson Foundation, California Psychological Association and many other national and international organizations.
Dr. Madanes has been featured in Newsweek, Vogue, Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Her books have been translated in over 10 languages, and she has won several awards for distinguished contribution to psychology, including a Doctorate in Humane Letters, honoris cause from the University of San Francisco, Distinguished Contribution to Psychology award from the California Psychological Association and an Egner Foundation Award for Distinguished Contribution in the fields of Psychology, Anthropology and Philosophy from the University of Zurich in Switzerland.