Pamela Cantor, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

Dr. Pamela Cantor is a Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is co-director of Harvard's annual course on Preventing and Treating Adolescent Self-Destruction. Previously, Dr. Cantor was Associate Professor at Boston University and taught at the Radcliffe Institute. She was appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts to the Statewide Advisory Board for the Office for Children, appointed by President Reagan to the United States Commission on Youth Suicide Prevention, was Chair of the National Committee on Youth Suicide Prevention, and President of the American Association of Suicidology.

In her effort to impart mental health knowledge to teenagers and the people who work with or parent them, she appeared on many hundreds of television and radio shows and wrote and narrated the award-winning documentary film, Young People in Crisis: How You Can Help, which premiered at The Kennedy Center in Washington and is shown in 2000 schools nationwide. Dr. Cantor offered advice to parents of adolescents in her Los Angeles Times Syndicate weekly column For Parents Only for fifteen years.

Dr. Cantor is in private practice in Needham, MA., where she specializes in the treatment of young people and their families. She writes and lectures extensively addressing academic, public service, professional and business groups.