Author’s Notes

Discover The Unknown, Unnerving, Characteristics Of Shrinks

In Western nations, including Japan, a psychotherapist’ average number of words during a one-hour therapy session is 481 words per hour ranging from 22 words to 1,147 words per hour. This allows us to conclude that word numbers higher or lower than these amounts represent a serious deviation from the norm, causing many observers to regard them as abnormal––as are most psychotherapists themselves.

As I look back at the hundreds of therapists and interns that I have mentored over the years, I realize these therapists were people striving to create a valuable, exceptional, therapeutic persona, becoming real with time and always growing, while dealing with the extremely complicated lives of their patients. It is a challenge that is so difficult to satisfy that psychotherapists may tilt off their functional center and grope for help from within, calling on their neurotic patterns, shadow energy, or other erroneously biased perspectives.

The chapters in this book present storied information about psychotherapists at work, psychotherapists not at work, and psychotherapists in their favorite altered states of mind and the method chosen to get there. You will become informed, surprised and amused, as you discover peculiarities working in the world of “shrinks.”

The stories offered in this book are psychologically true, though totally a work of fiction. The stories are written utilizing memory and imagination, similar to making a pot of chicken noodle soup. The noodles are the memory—like the paper bearing the words of the stories—while the chicken is the imagination that contributes flavor and energy to the soup. Reading this book is like sitting down to enjoy a spicy, sexy bowl of that hot chicken noodle soup. Careful, don’t burn your tongue.

We need our imagination to protect us from the limitations of reality.