Prof. Dr. Donald Baucom is a Professor at the faculty of Psychology at the University of North-Carolina. He is the founder of cognitive behaviour therapy for couples. Baucom is specialised in the dynamics in intimate relationships with the topics of social support, health, infidelity and obsessive compulsive disorder. He is working on a large scale research on interventions for couples in which the woman is dealing with breast cancer. Baucom wrote several books and articles.