Richard M. Gray, Ph.D.

Richard Gray is Research Director for the NLP Research and Recognition Project. He served as Principal Investigator for pilot studies of the RTM protocol for the Project. Previously, he retired after serving nine years as an Assistant Professor (tenured) in the School of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ. Prior to his appointment at FDU, Dr. Gray served for more than 20 years in the US Probation Department, Brooklyn, NY. While working in Brooklyn, he received the North East Regional Line Officer of the Year Award for 1999. While there, he developed the Brooklyn Program for substance abuse disorders. Gray was the recipient of the 2004 Neuro-Linguistic Programming World Community Award in Education for his work with federal offenders with substance use disorders. The award was presented at the CANLP Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Archetypal Explorations (Routledge, 1996); Co-Author with Lisa Wake and Frank Bourke of The Clinical Effectiveness of NLP (Routledge, 2012), and Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Clinical Settings (Routledge, 2022).

He is also the author of: Transforming Futures (Lulu, 2008), About Addictions: Notes from Psychology, Neuroscience and NLP (Lulu, 2015), Interviewing and Counseling Skills: An NLP Perspective (Lulu,2011), and multiple journal articles.

Dr. Gray received his BA in Psychology from Central College, Pella, IA; MA in Sociology from Fordham University, Bronx, NY; and Ph.D. in Psychology from The Union Institute, Cincinnati, OH.

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