Ellen McGrath, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and head of the Behavioral Section of the La Palestra Weight Management Program in New York City. For the past five years, she was the director of the Outpatient Eating Disorders Clinic at University of California–Irvine Medical School. For twelve years, Dr. McGrath has been a full-time faculty member at the University of California–Irvine Medical School, the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and a part-time faculty member at New York University. She is a past president of both the Media Psychology Division and the Division of Psychotherapy of the American Psychological Association, and an APA Council Representative. Dr. McGrath is the author of three books on stress and depression management. Listed by three national women’s magazines as one of the top therapists in the country, Dr. McGrath was honored again in 2001 as the Outstanding Psychologist of the year by the Psychotherapy Division of the American Psychological Association.