Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at St. John's University, where he has served as Department Chair and also as director of the Ph.D. Program in clinical Psychology. He is a past Chair of the Psychology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences and past President of the Division of Academic Psychology of the New York State Psychological Association as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Partnership for Responsible Drug Information. Dr. Fish is co-editor of Psychology, Perspectives and Practice and author of Placebo Therapy and Culture and Therapy: an Integrative Approach. He recently edited a large collection of expert contributions on How to Legalize… Drugs (1998). He has written over seventy journal articles and book chapters.