Ilene A. Serlin, born in 1948, received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, M.A. from the City College of New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Dallas. She is a licensed psychologist and registered Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist. Serlin is a Fellow of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology (Gen. Ed.) and past president of the Division of Humanistic Psychology. She is also past president of the San Francisco Psychological Association and editor of Whole Person Healthcare (2007, 3 vol., Praeger). Serlin has published over 100 chapters and articles on body, art, and psychotherapy and is on the editorial boards of PscCritiques; the American Dance Therapy Journal; the Journal of Humanistic Psychology; Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research; Policy and Practice; Journal of Applied Arts and Health; and The Humanistic Psychologist. She has previously taught at Saybrook University, Lesley University, the University of California Los Angeles, the New York Gestalt Institute, the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, and she is currently Associate Distinguished Professor of Psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Her research interests include existential and humanistic psychotherapy, Buddhist and Jewish spiritual practices, dance movement therapy, and women's issues.