Martha Stout, Ph.D., is an American psychologist and author.
She completed her professional training in psychology at the McLean Psychiatric Hospital. She served as an instructor on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School for over twenty-five years, and served as part of the graduate faculty of The New School, the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, and Wellesley College. She has written several books on psychology that appeal to the popular market.
In her most popular book, The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us, she advises developing an awareness of the nature of anti-social behavior in order to avoid becoming its victim and proposes thirteen rules as self-help guidelines to assessing relationships and behavior for these characteristics, as well as offering advice on handling situations when one encounters the behavior. [1]
Dr. Stout currently is in private practice as a clinical psychologist in Boston and resides in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. ,