Stephen J. Betchen

Stephen J. Betchen, Ph.D., earned his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice with a specialization in marriage and family therapy. He subsequently completed fellowships in sex therapy at The New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University and psychoanalysis at The Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. A licensed marriage and family therapist as well as an AAMFT and AASECT supervisor, he supervises in the graduate program for Marriage and Family Therapy at Thomas Jefferson University where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor, and in the post-graduate program for the Council for Relationships. He is the author of numerous professional articles, chapters, and magazine/newspaper columns on relationships as well as the critically acclaimed book, Intrusive Partners-Elusive Mates (Routledge, 2005). His latest book is Magnetic Partners: Discover How the Hidden Conflict That Once Attracted You to Each Other Is Now Driving You Apart.(Free Press, 2010)