Brent Dean Robbins is associate professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Robbins is a recipient of the Harmi Carari Early Career Award, from the Society for Humanistic Psychology.
[1][2] In 2011, Robbins co-authored an open letter from the Society for Humanistic Psychology regarding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders's fifth edition, the DSM-5.
The letter has been endorsed by thirteen other American Psychological Association divisions,[3] and has been signed as a petition by over 15,000 people.
In a recent San Francisco Chronicle article about the debate over the DSM-5, Robbins noted that, under the new guidelines, certain responses to grief could be labeled as pathological disorders, instead of being recognized as being normal human experiences.