Alan Flashman was born in Foxborough, MA, and gained his BA from Columbia, MD from NYU, Pediatrics, Adult and Child Psychiatry at Albert Einstein. He has practiced in Beer Sheba since 1983, and taught mental health at Hebrew Uinversity, Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University. Alan has also edited readers on Tharpeutic Communication with Children (2002) and Adolescents (2005).