John Gray (U.S. author)
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John Gray (born in Houston, Texas, in 1951) is an American author on relationships and personal growth, best known for his 1992 book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, and other "pop psychology" books offering relationship advice.
He was married to fellow self-help author Barbara De Angelis, but divorced in 1984. He is currently married to Bonnie Gray and has three daughters, Lauren, Julie and Shannon.
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[edit] Teachings
Gray's books teach that men and women are intrinsically different in their psychology, and that harmony between the sexes is achieved by recognising and accepting these differences rather than trying to erase them. Critics have accused him of over-simplifying human psychology into stereotypes that fail to adequately describe many people.
[edit] Credentials
After high school he attended University of St. Thomas (a liberal arts college) and the University of Texas, but did not receive degrees from these institutions. He lived as a Hindu monk for nine years in Switzerland and studied with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He received diplomas called BA and MA in "Creative Intelligence" from the Maharishi European Research University. In 1997, he acquired a Ph.D at Columbia Pacific University[1], a non-accredited distance education institution that was forced to close in 2001 when the California Department of Consumer Affairs obtained a court judgment that found that the school "awarded excessive credit... to many students" and "failed to meet various requirements for issuing Ph.D. degrees." [2]
In the suit to close the school, Deputy Attorney General Asher Rubin referred to the school as "a diploma mill which has been preying on California consumers for too many years." The suit also called the school a "phony operation" offering "totally worthless [degrees] . . . to enrich its unprincipled promoters."[3]
[edit] Books and other publications
- What You Feel You Can Heal (Heart Publishing 1984)
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (HarperCollins 1992)
- Men, Women and Relationships (Beyond Words Publishing 1993)
- Mars and Venus In the Bedroom (HarperCollins 1995)
- Mars and Venus Together Forever (Harper Perennial 1996)
- Mars and Venus In Love (HarperCollins 1996)
- Mars and Venus On a Date (Harper Collins 1997)
- Mars and Venus Starting Over (HarperCollins 1998)
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days (HarperCollins 1998)
- How To Get What You Want and Want What You Have (HarperCollins 1999)
- Children Are from Heaven (HarperCollins 1999)
- Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus (HarperCollins 2000)
- How To Get What You Want at Work (HarperCollins 2002)
- Truly Mars & Venus (HarperCollins 2003)
- The Mars & Venus Diet & Exercise Solution (St. Martin’s Press 2003)
- How to Live for Change and Change for Life: Practical Ways to Have the Life You Want
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Columbia Pacific University: "Netnotes"
- The Rebuttal from Uranus: site critical of Gray's methodology and credentials.
- Rick Ross Institute
- German MarsVenus Page
- Relationship Enrichment By Dr. John Gray – 1
- Relationship Enrichment By Dr. John Gray – 1
- Learning From Top Management Gurus
- Mars and Venus Advice (divorce column)de:John Gray (Therapeut)
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