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Raymond Hawkins, PhD has been engaged in clinical health psychology and research for over 40 years, beginning in his doctoral studies in the Human Feeding Laboratory of Dr. Eliot Stellar and Dr. Albert Stunkard at the University of Pennsylvania. He has conducted research on binge eating disorder in obese and normal weight individuals, and has conducted cognitive-behavioral group and individual treatment for this population. Dr. Hawkins also was a co-founder of the Austin Stress Clinic, where his specialty was habit control with adjunctive clinical biofeedback training. A staff psychologist at Austin Regional Clinic Mental Health Associates (subsequently Integrated Mental Health Service) for 22 years, Dr. Hawkins developed a clinical biofeedback service for treating stress and pain disorders and also the Family Recovery Program, which was an outpatient treatment program for substance abuse patients. Since 1975, he has conducted clinical health psychology research as a faculty member of the Psychology Dept. at The University of Texas at Austin (now an adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor); and since 2004 as a Core Faculty member in the Clinical Psychology Program at Fielding Graduate University, where he continues to research binge eating disorder and obesity. His research includes a 38 year follow-up of families who participated in his longitudinal study of the growth and caregiver-infant feeding interactions of bottle-fed infants born to normal weight and obese parents. His other research projects include studying evidence based assessment and interventions in two practice research networks (in the UT Austin Clinical Psychology Training Clinic and the Fielding Training Clinic at New Life Institute, which he directs), and revising the scoring of traditional personality tests (including the Holtzman Inkblot Technique and Thematic Apperception Test) and computer text analysis of dreams for case conceptualization and treatment outcome prediction.