Bryan E. Robinson | |
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| Born | 1945 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Ph.D |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Website | bryanrobinsonbooks |
Bryan E. Robinson is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte currently living in Asheville, NC. He is a graduate of East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina system and author of two novels and over 40 nonfiction books and Professor of Counseling and Child Development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for 25 years...[1] At UNC-Charlotte, he conducted the first research studies on children of workaholics and the effects of workaholism on marriage and the family.[2] Robinson is best known for his book, Chained to the Desk: A Guidebook for Workaholics, Their Partners and Children and the Clinicians Who Treat Them (2014, its third edition).[3] He is noted for his identification of two axes for workaholics: work initiation and work completion.[4] He associates the behavior of procrastination with both "Savoring Workaholics" (those with low work initiation/low work completion) and "Attention-Deficit Workaholics" (those with high work initiation and low work completion), in contrast to "Bulimic" and "Relentless" workaholics - both of whom have high work completion. He is widely recognized as being one of the world's leading experts on workaholism.[5] He is also known for developing the Work Addiction Risk Test (WART) a psychometric tool used to measure work addiction used clinically and in research worldwide to identify workaholism.[6] He has lectured on his pioneering research on workaholism and work/life balance across the United States and throughout the world: Sweden, Russia, Norway, Hong Kong, England, Canada, and Australia, and his books have been translated into thirteen languages: Arabic, Korean, Turkish, Hebrew, German, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, and Russian.[7]
- ^ Steinem, Gloria (1993). Revolution from within : a book of self-esteem (1st pbk. ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Co. pp. 89–93. ISBN 0316812471.
- ^ Weissmann, Jordan (September 2013). "The Work Addiction". The Atlantic: 19.
- ^ Renter, Elizabeth (June 15, 2015). "How Job Stress Might Be Killing You, and What You Can Do About It". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ Robinson, Bryan E. (1998). Chained to the desk : a guidebook for workaholics, their partners and children, and the clinicians who treat them. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-7480-6.
- ^ Wright, Chris. "The Truth About Workaholism". The Fix: Addiction and Recovery, Straight Up. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ Beck, Melinda (15 June 2010). "Why Relaxing is Hard Work". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Robinson, Bryan. "About Bryan Robinson". Retrieved 9 October 2016.