Joshua Kendall is a Boston-based freelance journalist and author whose work has appeared in various publications, including Business Week, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. He has co-written three academic psychology books and has received national journalism awards from both the National Mental Health Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association for his outstanding reporting on psychiatry. Kendall was graduated summa cum laude from Yale College with a degree in comparative literature and has done graduate work in comparative literature at Johns Hopkins University.