About the Author
DAVID SCHROEDER WAS RAISED in Southern California during World War II and the Truman and Eisenhower years. He never left Orange County, but did leave the sexism and racism in that land of milk and honey for white, middle class, protestant, straight, cisgender males of that place and time.
History was his main interest in school; His BA is in that field. This motivated a lifetime of international travel as he absorbed global cultures. He became a medical doctor because he thought he wasn't smart enough to make a living in history.
Schroeder's father was a physician, and he grew up with the medical science and ethics of an era which seemed far more imperative than in current times when the ethics and
standards of business have taken over medicine. He chose psychiatry as being the medical field in which he was most likely to be able to control his hours and have a quality life with his family. When patients started teaching him what works in psychotherapy, he became intrigued by the power
of universal, every-day thinking to magnify symptoms and suffering. A passion to alleviate anguish led him to practice psychotherapy and psychopharmacology in one office for his entire career.
He always wanted to write about the techniques that he found so helpful but waited until a decade after retirement to see their long-term outcome before doing so.
CREDENTIALS AND AFFILIATIONS:
Distinguished Life Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
Career-long member, American Medical Association
Board Certified in Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1974
Private practice of general psychiatry, 1973 to 2007
Medical/surgical and psychiatric hospital staff memberships in Orange County, California
Past Clinical Assistant Professor, UCI School of Medicine
Lt. Commander USNR–Camp Pendleton (USMC) Base Psychiatrist 1971 to 1973
Resident in Psychiatry, UCI, 1968 to 1971
Licensed to practice medicine in California since 1968
Rotating O Internship, Orange County Medical Center, 1967 to 1968
MD degree, Loma Linda University, 1967
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