Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, is the author of Wired for Love, Wired for Dating,and Your Brain on Love, and coauthor of Love and War in Intimate Relationships. He has a clinical practice in Southern California, teaches at Kaiser Permanente, and is an assistant clinical professor at UCLA.

Stan Tatkin developed a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy^® (PACT) and together with his wife, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, founded the PACT Institute. PACT is a fusion of developmental neuroscience, attachment theory, and arousal regulation, and is quickly gaining a reputation for treating the most challenging couples.