Robert Anthony Page

Dr. Robert Page has been a practicing clinical psychologist for over thirty-five years. He has had a lifelong interest in human development and mental health. He has also authored a ten-volume memoir/history of the 1990's in his "Citizen at Large: Speaking Freely and Other Rights of Passage in the Age of Clinton," now in the permanent collection of the National Archives at the Clinton Library in Little Rock. With graduate degrees in English and American Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in Cognitive Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University, and in Clinical Psychology (Ph.D.) from Nova Southeastern University, he has devoted years of study and practice to understanding the stages of the human life cycle. He found ample opportunity to bring this varied background to bear on the emerging crisis in his family life when his vivacious and independent mother Mary began to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in her mid-eighties. His life-changing experience of those caretaking years took shape in his innovative and poignant memoir "The Monster We Defied: A Son's Alzheimer's Recital."

He grew up in Danvers, Massachusetts where he attended St. John's Preparatory School. His early life was enriched by the natural beauty and the rich historical traditions of the North Shore of Boston. He has worked as a news writer and editor, a college English instructor, and as a social worker before he took up psychology in earnest and dedicated his professional life to clinical work in medical settings and community mental health centers. He lives north of Boston in the home his family has maintained since 1946.