Isn't this interesting? MAXINE SCHNALL seems to have had many careers. In 1981 she called | | herself Doctor and invented something called "rational love." | | Carol Tavris noted in the New York Times that her Ph.D. was "from | | Columbia Pacific University, a nonaccredited California school | | from which one can, by mail, get a Ph.D. in psychology." (On | | December 2, 1999, Marin County Superior Court Judge Lynn Duryee | | ordered the university to close and to refund its student fees.) | | In the 1980s Schnall was a talk-show hostess in Philadelphia and | | later in Long Island. | | On the January 1, 1992, Oprah Winfrey Show she appeared as | | "Maxine Schnall, Assertiveness Trainer." | | In a blurb for a recent book by Barbara De Angelis she is | | identified as "Maxine Schnall, founder and executive director of | | Wives' Self Help, the first marital hotline in America."