Donald H. Clark (born 1930 in

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) is an American writer, teacher, consultant and

clinical psychologist Clinical psychology is an integration of social science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and persona ...

who has specialized in group and individual work with gay people since 1968. His writing includes fiction,

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s, and articles for both professional journals and popular magazines. He is the author of the best-selling book, ''Loving Someone Gay'', now in its fifth edition, as well as its Spanish-language edition ''Amar a Alguien Gay'', ''Someone Gay: Memoirs'', ''Living Gay'' and ''As We Are''.

Career

Clark received a B.A. in psychology from

Antioch College Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, the college began operating in 1852 as a non-sectarian institution; politician and education reformer Horace Mann was its f ...

in 1953 and a PhD in psychology from

Adelphi University Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City, New York. Adelphi also has centers in Manhattan, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County. There is also a virtual, online campus for remote students. It is the oldest institution of higher ed ...

in 1959. He also served in the

U.S. Army Medical Corps The Medical Corps (MC) of the U.S. Army is a staff corps (non-combat specialty branch) of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an M.D. or a D.O. degree, at least one ye ...

, Scientific and Professional Personnel. He served on the faculty of

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

and the

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. He published a report for the

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of New York about the

Human Potential Movement The Human Potential Movement (HPM) arose out of the counterculture of the 1960s and formed around the concept of an extraordinary potential that its advocates believed to lie largely untapped in all people. The movement takes as its premise the be ...

. He has been a member of the Governing Boards of the

Saybrook Institute Saybrook University is a private university in Pasadena, California. It was founded in 1971 by Eleanor Camp Criswell and others. It offers postgraduate education with a focus on humanistic psychology. It features low residency, master's, and ...

and the

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, a Fellow of the

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, and a California Board of Psychology Commissioner, among other roles. From 1971 to his retirement in 2007, he held a private practice in

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, California.

References

External links

Don Clark's website
1930 births Living people 21st-century American psychologists Antioch College alumni Adelphi University alumni Hunter College faculty United States Army Medical Corps officers Fellows of the American Psychological Association 20th-century American psychologists {{LGBT-bio-stub