John B. Arden - Improving Your Memory For Dummies

by John B. Arden, Ph.D.

Improving Your Memory For Dummies

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2002106046

ISBN: 978-0-7645-5435-3

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John Boghosian Arden, Ph.D., is the Director of Training for Psychology in the Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in Northern California. In this capacity, he oversees 20 training programs in as many medical centers. He is also the local Director of Training at Kaiser Permanente in Vallejo, California, where he served in the past as Chief Psychologist.

Dr. Arden is the author of four other books: Consciousness, Dreams, and Self (winner of the 1997 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year Award by Choice a publication of the American Library Association); Science, Theology, and Consciousness (nominated by an international panel of jurists for the Templeton Prize); Surviving Job Stress; and Creating the Lowest Common Denominator Society.