Lawrence Weathers, Ph.D.
Psychologist

The author is an ADHD kid made good. He earned a Ph.D. in child clinical psychology from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1974. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapy. Before moving to Spokane in 1978, he was Director of the Adolescent Unit at Central state Psychiatric Hospital in Nashville TN, Director of the Family and Children’s Achievement Center in Miami FL, Director of the Adolescent Unit at the Florida Mental Health Institute, and later Professor and Director of Research and Evaluation at the Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Though he has numerous professional publications, this is his first offering to the popular press. His background straddles psychology and engineering. In the late 60’s he was a Systems Engineer for IBM. Later, he founded a company to develop software to score and interpret major personality and intelligence tests (MMPI & WISC/WAIS). In the late 80’s these software packages were sold worldwide.

His affection for technology goes back to his pre-teen days when he developed his first working fuel injection system, which successfully ran on his father’s pickup truck. As a teen, he put big engines in little cars (hot rods). After becoming a psychologist, he developed an electronic prompting device to speed psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic board games to structure group therapy to treat large numbers of people inexpensively.

Since leaving the academic world, Dr. Weathers has worked in private practice with his psychologist wife, Mary. He has been working with children and families for more than 30 years. He and Mary chose Spokane because of their interests in back packing, hiking, mountaineering, telemark skiing, and bicycling.

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6921 E Jamieson Rd.
Spokane WA 99223
 

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