Dr. Janet K. Smith has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is licensed by the state of California (PSY 12167). She is a Psychologist and Psychoanalyst and a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis and the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has been working with people who have eating disorders for the past 25 years, individually and in groups. She conducted group therapy in the SBK Eating Disorder Program, an outpatient treatment center, at the Wright Institute, Los Angeles. She is a member of professional eating disorder and group therapy associations including the Los Angeles Group Psychotherapy Association. She has published articles on Borderline Personality Disorder and depression in "The Therapist," a journal for Marriage and Family Therapists. Her articles include "Managing Anger in the Borderline." She has given over 50 presentations on eating disorders, addictions and other subjects to professionals and the public.