About the Authors
The authors are both highly experienced psychotherapists who have worked with many alpha males, females and their mates. They have significant personal experiences in the alpha world.
Pat Webster, Ph.D., R.N., clinical psychologist, is in private practice in Oriental North Carolina, where she specializes in coaching couples. Before moving to Oriental, she worked with alpha males and females and their mates in her private psychotherapy practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She was formerly an assistant clinical associate at Duke University in Durham, N.C. and Director of Psychiatric Nursing on a Duke University inpatient psychiatry teaching unit. In those positions she had to learn to work with alpha male physicians, work that included learning to manage her own alpha assets and liabilities. She has continued to learn about and refine related skills in several relationships with alpha males, including her late husband. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Psychotherapists, where she is also Chair of the Ethics Committee. She is a second degree black belt in karate and is an avid sailor.
Martin Groder, M.D., grew up in Manhattan, studied psychiatry, and became Warden in Charge of Psychiatry at the federal prison in Marion Illinois, for three years before establishing a private practice in psychiatry. While warden he developed innovative and effective programs, including Asklepieion, which reduced recidivism among volunteers with 18 months in the program from 40-60% to 13%. An alpha himself, Marty gleaned what he has presented in this book from working with the prisoners (most of whom are the dark side of alpha), from his clientele of highly successful people, and from his first failed marriage. Until his death in 2007, he was happily partnered for 15 years . This book is one culmination of his life’s experience, research, and theory building.
