Contributors

Marshall Donnelley is 56. He was a patient at Austen Riggs for 8 years from 2007–2015. He has an MBA, and lives in Manhattan and enjoys playing tennis. His main interest is Economics.

Gary Jay Fleishman is a professional counselor, psychoanalytic candidate, relationship coach, and founder of Solutions That Really Work™. With more than thirty years of experience in education, counseling, and personal development, his work integrates psychoanalytic thinking, trauma-informed practice, and practical strategies for emotional growth. His clinical and professional interests include early relational experience, adult relationship patterns, self-integration, and the unconscious ways individuals may work against their own desired outcomes.

J. Christopher Fowler completed a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Tennessee. After an internship year at Harvard's Cambridge Hospital, and a four-year post-doctoral fellowship in clinical psychology at the Austen Riggs Center, he advanced to clinical leadership positions serving as Director of Clinical Research, Clinical Team Leader, and Interim Director of Patient Care.

In 2011, he and his family moved to Houston where he served as Associate Director of Research and Director of Psychology at the Menninger Clinic. In 2018, he joined Houston Methodist Behavioral Health as Director of Professional Wellness. Dr. Fowler holds academic appointments as Professor of Psychology at Houston Methodist Academic Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College. He has over 140 publications in the areas of personality disorders, suicide, neuroimaging, and treatment outcome,

and is an internationally recognized personality researcher. He is the past editor of The Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, and currently serves on several editorial boards including Journal of Psychiatric Practice and Psychotherapy.

In January 2024 he advanced to Executive Clinical Director of the Monarch Community, leading an interdisciplinary team of Houston Methodist clin