When I told people I was training to become a therapist the reaction typically was, "That will help you so much as a writer. You'll get so much story material!" Actually, it turned out to be the opposite: being a writer helped me as a therapist.

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In a previous piece I explained why I thought to publish The Therapist's New Clothes using the Espresso Book Machine, which prints and binds books on-site. Before signing on, I headed up the mountain road to talk to my would-be publisher, Chris Morrow at the Northshire Bookstore. He...

As a well-trained, rule-following author I was stuck: I had a written a book, "The Therapist's New Clothes" -- a memoir of training as a psychotherapist, and cautionary tale about the seductions of therapy -- and came close with publishers but never hit a match: it was small...