Dr. Richard Farson, psychologist, author, educator is president of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization devoted to research and education toward the advancement of society, the strengthening of democracy, and the enrichment of life for all. Among his current responsibilities, he heads WBSI’s International Leadership Forum, an Internet-based think tank composed entirely of highly influential leaders from business, government, academia, science, journalism, literature and the arts, addressing the great policy issues of our time. A Univ. of Chicago PhD in psychology, he has been a Naval officer, dean of the School of Environmental Design at the California Institute of the Arts. president of Esalen Institute, a Fellow on the Human Relations Faculty at the Harvard Business School, and has published nine books, most dealing with the paradoxical nature of human affairs, the most recent addressing the paradoxes of marriage and parenthood.