The Rhode Island Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline in 2011 reprimanded an emergency-room physician who posted about her clinicalexperiences on Facebook.
And what about folks like those who contacted Siegel, callers whose success supported an administrative assistant but whose personal experiences left them seeking clinical insight?
It is based on recent research into the psychology of flourishing (so called positive psychology), consumer behavior research, experiences and research about the diet industry and weight loss, my 25 years clinical experience as a psychologist and psychoanalyst, and well over a half-century of experience eating.