Marilyn Wedge Ph.D.

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D., is a family therapist who works with children, adolescents and families. She is the author of three books on child therapy including A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD Became an American Epidemic (Avery/Penguin); In the Therapist's Mirror: Reality in the Making (W. W. Norton), and Suffer the Children: The Case against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative (W. W. Norton; published in paperback as Pills are not for Preschoolers).

Wedge's work has appeared on the Huffington Post, and in The Wall Street Journal, Natural Health, People Magazine, L. A. Parent, and Babble, among other outlets. Her Psychology Today post "Why French Kids don't have ADHD" has more than 15 million readers, and has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and other languages. She has been interviewed on television (CBS-San Francisco, San Diego Living), and on National Public Radio (NPR).

Wedge is the originator of "strategic child-focused family therapy," which empowers parents to help their children heal without labeling them with so-called "psychiatric disorders" or medicating them with psychotropic drugs. She earned her bachelor's degree and her doctorate at the University of Chicago, where she was a Danforth Foundation Fellow, and had a post-doctoral fellowship at the Hastings Center for Bioethics in New York. She has taught at the California State University, East Bay and the College of the Art Institute of Chicago. She speaks frequently at national and international professional conferences and before parenting and educational groups.