Dr James E. Campbell MD
About The Author
James Ernest Campbell, M.D. grew up in Illinois farm country where his two closest companions were a border collie named Peg and an Arabian horse named Razja. He was conscripted into the first-grade a year early because the school needed one more student in order to stay open. He graduated co-valedictorian from Warsaw High School and went on to MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. for three years before being accepted by three of the four medical schools where he applied. He chose to go to St.Louis Univ. Medical School in St. Louis Missouri for his medical training. Following that he went to Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago for a one-year straight-medical internship and his basic three-year adult psychiatric residency. In 1971, after completing his military service at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico, he set up an adult psychiatric practice in Phoenix, Arizona. Nine years later he decided to broaden his practice scope by attending a two-year Child Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA. Afterwards, he returned to Phoenix where he has been treating children, adolescents and adults. Dr. Campbell feels fortunate to have had the opportunity to do something he had wanted since the age of six. He concludes that many conflicts can be improved with little effort once we understand how the common institutions we accept as being close to our heart can be double edged swords. Doctor Campbell does not care whether people are left, or right, politically, as much as he cares about the way they come to frame choices: lying, prejudices, deliberate distortions, blind eye to hypocrisy, no sense of history, destruction of basic principles of decency, tunnel vision, and a disregard for knowledge (truth over fact). He is critical of the lack of an intelligent approach to the problems ‘we the people’ need to work out our
issues.
My Work
Because of the rapid turnover of patients in Dr. Campbell's office, an outcome of the use of rapid relief principles, he decided to extend the nature of his practice by taking a two-year child fellowship at UCLA. It was there that he met Dr. Gary Emery who he later collaborated with to write the original Rapid Relief from Emotional Distress.
My Community
Dr. Campbell is married to Sharon in a blended family composed of his sons Paul and Justin and her daughter Lori. Doctor’s office (ran successfully by Sharon) is retiring after 52 years in June of 2023. Sharon and Dr. Campbell enjoy horse, dog and cat activities; travel locally and outside the country; music and good movies.
My Mission
Dr. Campbell