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Contact Information: M. Marshall, PhD Department of Psychology West Liberty State College West Liberty, WV 26074 Email for Information Last Updated 8/10/02 Michael J. Marshall is a Professor of Psychology at West Liberty State College and a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice. Dr. Marshall lives with his wife, son, and three daughters in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was born in Los Angeles in 1949, the son of an LAPD police officer. After a two year stint in the Navy during the Vietnam War, during which he served on a nuclear submarine, he resumed his education at California State University. He worked his way through school as a swimming pool contractor in Southern California. After receiving his BA and MA in psychology, he entered a doctoral program at Claremont Graduate University where he completed his PhD in psychology in 1987. He taught at High Point University and North Carolina A&T State University until 1992 when he became a faculty member at West Liberty State College, where he currently teaches applied psychology. He is the author of a dozen scholarly research articles in psychology, published in journals ranging from the International Journal of Addictions to The Journal of Psychological Practice. He has considerable clinical experience working with parolees, substance abusers, and patients with psychotic and emotional disorders. He has a private practice and does community mental health contract work. His duties include assessment, treatment planning, crisis stabilization, and psychotherapy. He often testifies as an expert witness in civil commitment proceedings. In addition to lecturing and seeing patients, he conducts Continuing Education workshops for mental health professionals and does research on addictions and family discipline practices. He has been honored for his professional work with awards in the areas of professional achievement, outstanding service, and excellence in research. Marshall drew on his professional knowledge, research, and experience to help him write Why Spanking Doesn’t Work. He believes hitting is more of an emotional impediment to overcome rather than a means of proper socialization. His suspicions were professionally confirmed upon becoming familiar with the corporal punishment research literature as a psychologist. He drew his inspiration for popularizing alternative discipline strategies from such disparate sources as the pioneering family research of Sociologist Murray A. Straus, PhD, author of Beating the Devil Out of Them and the superior gentle horse training techniques of Monty Roberts, author of The Man Who Listens to Horses. Marshall took Straus’s words that “The best kept secret in developmental psychology is the harmful effects of corporal punishment” as a battle cry for the duty to inform parents of the hidden dangers inherent in their decision to use the paddle. Marshall spends his leisure time working on his old three story house, listening to classical music, playing racquetball, and traveling and camping across the country with his family during summer vacations. His four children are all happy and well-adjusted.

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