Jeanne Safer, PhD, is a psychotherapist who has been in private practice for over three decades. Her special areas of expertise include siblings of the mentally and physically ill and women who are making a choice whether to be mothers. A supervisor and faculty member at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, Dr. Safer lectures on the inner life of men and women, has appeared on television (The Today Show, Good Morning America and as a psychological expert on The Montel Williams Show) and radio and has contributed articles to The New York Times, the Washington Post, O:The Oprah Magazine, More Magazine, and Self. She is also the author of two previous books, Beyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Children, and Forgiving and Not Forgiving: Why Sometimes It's Better Not to Forgive. Both Beyond Motherhood and The Normal One were finalists in the Books for a Better Life Award for the year's best self-improvement books. Dr. Safer lives in New York City with her husband, historian and political journalist Richard Brookhiser.