Stanley I. Greenspan, MD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders. He is also a practicing child psychiatrist, and founding president of Zero to Three: The National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. He is a supervising child psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and has been director of the Clinical Infant Development Programs at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Greenspan's many influential books include: Building Healthy Minds; The Irreducible Needs of Children (with T. Berry Brazelton) The Four-Thirds Solution (with Jacqueline Salmon); The Growth of the Mind (with Beryl Lieff Benderly); The Challenging Child (with Jacqueline Salmon); Infancy and Early Childhood; First Feelings (with Nancy Thorndike Greenspan); and The Child With Special Needs (with Serena Wider and Robin Simons). In his latest book, The Secure Child, Greenspan offers a set of guiding principles that will help parents of children at each age—from preschoolers to teenagers —both reassure and guide them so that they feel secure in their homes, their schools, and in their community at large. His work has been featured in the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as ABC's "Nightline" and a PBS "Nova" special.