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Marilyn Wedge Ph.D.

About

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D., is a family therapist with twenty-seven years of experience helping children, adolescents and families. She is the author of three books on child therapy. Her latest book is A Disease Called Childhood: Why ADHD Became an American Epidemic (Avery/Penguin). Her previous books, published by W. W. Norton, are: In the Therapist's Mirror: Reality in the Making, and Suffer the Children:The Case against Labeling and Medicating and an Effective Alternative (published in paperback with the title: Pills are not for Preschoolers).

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

Dr. 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.

Dr. Wedge 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 is a popular speaker at national and international professional conferences and is also a frequent speaker at parenting and educational groups.

Dr. Wedge lives in Oak Park, California with her husband Gene. They have three grown children and three grandchildren.

Books by Marilyn Wedge Ph.D.
Recent Posts
Screen Time and Autism
Does spending excessive time on electronic screens affect cognitive and language development in early childhood?
Tablets for Tots? Maybe Not
Research shows that effective parent training can reduce young children’s excessive screen time and, potentially, their early symptoms of autism or ASD.
The New “Marital Partnership”

The increased stress brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic is putting couples at an increased risk for experiencing infidelity.

The increased stress brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic is putting couples at an increased risk for experiencing infidelity.

How 'Focusing' Helps Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma

"Focusing" can release memories of trauma that are held in the body. "The unconscious is the body," said the originator of the technique.

"Focusing" can release memories of trauma that are held in the body. "The unconscious is the body," said the originator of the technique.

Reflections on Alice Miller

Depression, anxiety, and even physical illnesses are often rooted in childhood trauma. A technique called "focusing" can release the vestiges of trauma.

Depression, anxiety, and even physical illnesses are often rooted in childhood trauma. A technique called "focusing" can release the vestiges of trauma.

The Inflamed Teenage Brain

In the past few years, integrative medicine, an innovative approach to what we think of as psychiatric symptoms, has been gathering attention.

In the past few years, integrative medicine, an innovative approach to what we think of as psychiatric symptoms, has been gathering attention.

COVID and the Single Young Adult

What should young people do, facing the COVID 19-induced crisis of social isolation and the resulting loneliness?

What should young people do, facing the COVID 19-induced crisis of social isolation and the resulting loneliness?

COVID and the Teenage Brain

if parents push a teenager too far into conforming to their views, their teen may face identity confusion.

if parents push a teenager too far into conforming to their views, their teen may face identity confusion.