Dr. Mona Gustafson Affinito, Ph.D, L.P., licensed to practice psychology in Minnesota and listed on the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. There she enjoyed twenty-nine years teaching General, Personality, Developmental, and Social Psychology, specializing after 1970 in the Psychology of Women. Dr. Affinito served seven years as elected department chair and was recognized for her active participation in several major departmental and college-wide committees. She is a lecturer and presenter with the ability to deliver practical messages tailored to the special needs of diverse audiences.

Now a practicing therapist in Chaska, Minnesota, Mona is an emeritus member of the faculty of the Alfred Adler Graduate School. Her specialty is the understanding of forgiveness and justice. She is the author of "When to Forgive," published in 1999 by New Harbinger Publications, "Forgiving One Page at a Time: The Diary of Your Journey to Restoration and Confidence" (2007) and of "Helping with Forgiveness Decisions: A Brief Guide for Counselors." (2001) Look also for Affinito, M.G., "Forgiveness in Counseling: Caution, Definition, and Application," in Lamb, S. and Murphy, J. G. (Eds.). (2002). Before Forgiving: Cautionary Views of Forgiveness in Counseling." New York: Oxford University Press. "When to Forgive" has been published in Chinese characters in Taiwan, and in English in India.

In 2009, she published "Mrs. Job," the fictional story of the wife of Biblical Job. In this work, her interests in the psychology of women, women in the Biblical periods, and forgiveness have come together in her first journey away from focus on professional psychology. Currently her efforts are spent in working on "Riding in the Back Seat: A Time Travelogue - 1929 to sometime in the 21st Century."

In Connecticut, Dr. Affinito frequently spoke and presented workshops on the topics "A Healthy Woman is a Crazy Person" and later "Ending the Longest War: the War Between the Sexes." Upon moving to Minnesota in 1995, Dr. Affinito closed an active private practice where she had been seeing up to thirty clients a week, working individually with adults of both genders, with couples, and with women's groups. Currently she has chosen to limit her practice in Chaska, MN,  to no more than ten clients a week.

Mona is the proud mother of two adult children, Douglas and Lisa, a son-in-law, Jan Erik Neun, and two adult grandchildren, KJ and Erik Neun.