The Lost American Industrialist

Dr. Bob is a Clinical Social Worker who specializes in mental health, specifically counseling related to issues of suicide, suicide bereavement, and posttraumatic stress. Bob has been active in the study of Suicidology for the past forty years, including research, public speaking, writing, publication, and clinical practice. Dr. Bob's clinical work has included a deep appreciation of the role of culture and spirituality in healthy human development. He maintains a private practice of psychotherapy on Cape Cod, and has spent the past eighteen years working with military Veterans at the VA Primary Care Clinic in Hyannis, MA. Bob is happily married to his wife, Tessie, of almost forty years. They have three children together-Jonathan, Anthony and Jennifer-all succeeding in their own professional careers. Bob's continuing interest in Sylvia Plath began in 1976, during research for his Assumption College Master's thesis in psychology, which he titled "An Existential-Phenomenological Study of the Suicidal Moment."