Dr. Arthur (Art) Freeman is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.  He completed his undergraduate and early graduate work at New York University and his doctoral work at Teachers College-Columbia University.  He studied at the Alfred Adler Institute in New York under Drs. Kurt and Alexandra Adler, the Institute for Rational Living under Dr. Albert Ellis, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Aaron T. Beck.

In addition to 60+ book chapters, reviews and journal articles, he has published 63 professional books including: Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders (with Aaron T. Beck), Clinical Applications of Cognitive Therapy, and The Comprehensive Casebook of Cognitive Therapy (with Frank Dattilio).  Dr. Freeman has published two popular books, Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: Overcoming Mistakes and Missed Opportunities (with Rose DeWolf) and The Ten Dumbest Mistakes Smart People Make, and How to Overcome Them (with Rose DeWolf).  His work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. He also serves on the editorial boards of several national and international journals.

Dr. Freeman is board certified in Clinical Psychology, in Behavioral Psychology, and in Family Psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (divisions of Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Family Psychology), of the American Psychological Society, of the Academy of Clinical Psychology, and of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.  Dr. Freeman is a past president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy and of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy and has served as Vice President (2000-2002) of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology.

In 2000, the Pennsylvania Psychological Association named him the recipient of its award for "Outstanding Contribution to the Science and Practice of Psychology."

Dr. Freeman has been a visiting professor of psychiatry and psychology at the Universities of Umea and Gothenburg (Sweden), the University of Catania (Italy), the Shanghai Second Medical University (China), and the Warsaw Medical University (Poland).  He has lectured in 35 countries over the past 25 years.