Elias Aboujaoude

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University

Elias Aboujaoude is a psychiatrist, researcher and author at Stanford University in California, where he is director of the Stanford OCD Clinic. He has published several peer reviewed studies and four books, including Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the e-Personality (2011) and Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrist’s Tales of Ritual and Obsession (2008).

Written by Elias Aboujaoude

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Life coaching is unregulated and growing rapidly. Should it be reined in?

Anybody can call themselves a life coach, and then offer what amounts to serious therapy. Should life coaching be regulated?

by Elias Aboujaoude