Then, ten years later Lauren’s mother had contacted him – she was worried about Lauren could he help find her as she had gone away without saying anything without taking anything. Two sessions was all she managed before she stopped coming to his practice. When psychologist Alex Delaware saw fifteen year old Lauren Teague on the insistence of her parents, he was frustrated by his inability to help her. Jonathan is married to bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman and they have four children. In addition, he has written and illustrated two books for children and a nonfiction volume on childhood violence, SAVAGE SPAWN (1999.) Though no longer active as a psychotherapist, he is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
Since then, Jonathan has published a best-selling crime novel every year, and occasionally, two a year.
movie and won the Edgar Allan Poe and Anthony Boucher Awards for Best First Novel.
In 1985, Jonathan's first novel, WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, was published to enormous critical and commercial success and became a New York Times bestseller. One year later, came a book for parents, HELPING THE FEARFUL CHILD. Jonathan's first published book was a medical text, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER, 1980. Decades later, the program, under the tutelage of one of Jonathan's former students, continues to break ground. Jonathan was asked to be founding director and, along with his team, published extensively in the area of behavioral medicine. The success of that venture led to the establishment, in 1977 of the Psychosocial Program, Division of Oncology, the first comprehensive approach to the emotional aspects of pediatric cancer anywhere in the world. IN 1975, Jonathan was asked by the hospital to conduct research into the psychological effects of extreme isolation (plastic bubble units) on children with cancer, and to coordinate care for these kids and their families. He served internships in clinical psychology and pediatric psychology at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and was a post-doctoral HEW Fellow in Psychology and Human Development at CHLA. in psychology at the age of 24, with a specialty in the treatment of children. Like his fictional protagonist, Alex Delaware, Jonathan received at Ph.D. As a senior, at the age of 22, he won a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for fiction. He helped work his way through UCLA as an editorial cartoonist, columnist, editor and freelance musician. Jonathan Kellerman was born in New York City in 1949 and grew up in Los Angeles.
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