David Greenfield (author)

David Neal Greenfield (born. June 15, 1956) is a practicing psychologist and director of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction in West Hartford, Connecticut. He has been practicing since 1986 and has been an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine since 2000.

College Education

After first attending Burgen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey for one year in 1974 he transferred to Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey for the rest of his undergraduate, receiving his B.A. in Psychology with honors.

After receiving his B.A. he enrolled at New York University from 1978 through 1980, receiving a Masters in Counciling. The following year he enrolled in Texas Tech University and received his Doctorate in Counseling Psychology in 1986. Prior to receiving his degree he completed an internship in Clinical Psychology at The McQuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. He then went on to complete a residency in Clinical Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and Fairfield Hills Hospital in Newtown, Connecticut.

Early career

After his education and fulfilling his requirements for licensure in the states of New York and Connecticut he continued as a staff psychologist at Fairfield Hills Hospital until 1988. He then went on to take a half time psychologist position at Elmcrest Hospital in Portland, Connecticut.

In 1990 Dr. Greenfield went into full time psychology and helped found Psychological Health Assosiates in the towns of West Hartford and Danbury, Connecticut with former wife Dr. Marci Korwin and Texas Tech roommate Dr. Andrew Magin. He remained there until 2005 when went on to found The Healing Center, LLC also in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Work on Internet and Technology Addiction

In 1997 Greenfield developed an interest in the then unknown field of computer and internet addiction and its effects on people's behavior. He started his research on the subject later that year by conducting the world's first large-scale study on internet and computer behavior and then publishing his results in a paper entitled "Psychological Characteristics of Compulsive Internet Use: A Preliminary Analysis".[1] This paper was first presented at the 1990 American Psychological Association convention in Boston, Massachusetts and later published in journal CyberPsycology and Behavior.

Current Career and Lectures

Greenfield, along with running his West Hartford, Connecticut practice, is also giving lectures all across the state and the world. He has lectured in Las Vegas (USA), Hong Kong (China), Madrid (Spain), Washington D.C. (USA), Berlin (Germany) and many other locations worldwide. His lectures usually pertain to the topic of Internet addiction, a subject that he has been at the forefront of since the mid 1990s. He first started to lecture shortly after that.

References

External links

• Excerpt from Virtual Addiction

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