John W. Travis, MD, MPH completed medical school in Boston in 1969 and specialized in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In 1975, he founded the first US wellness center in Mill Valley, CA—featured on 60 Minutes in 1979. Beginning in 1975, he developed the now widely used Wellness Inventory and co-authored three editions of the Wellness Workbook.
John W. Travis, MD, MPH completed medical school in Boston in 1969 and specialized in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In 1975, he founded the first US wellness center in Mill Valley, CA—featured on 60 Minutes in 1979. Beginning in 1975, he developed the now widely used Wellness Inventory and co-authored three editions of the Wellness Workbook.
In the early nineties, he shifted his focus to infant wellness, co-founding the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children httpss://www.atlc.org. This led to his analysis of the epidemic of dissolving marriages that often occur after the birth of a child in nuclear families.
He described this insidious epidemic as Postpartum Relationship Abandonment Syndrome, which is caused by overwhelm and the restimulation of the parents’ childhood wounding. See Connected Couples—Thriving Families.
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