Walks Along The Pier: Tales Of A Wounded Healer

Doug, a ‘burned out’ and disillusioned psychotherapist, seeks serenity, peace and self-awareness by walking his favorite pier in order to sort out his painful experiences and make sense of his life. While on his walks, he is approached by unsolicited clients who seek his help. Walks Along the Pier is a series of fictional psychological case studies in the literary tradition of Linder, Viscott, Sigmund Freud and many others. Cynical, irreverent, often hilarious and always insightful, Walks Along the Pier examines issues of life and death, relationships, mother/fatherhood, parenting, incest, abortion, homosexuality and marriage as well as the ultimate existential question of the meaning of life. The vignettes explore the therapist's reactions to the information gleaned from the client through his own filters and his acknowledgement and examination of his reaction to their story. He finds a resonance which brings forth his own 'demons' for him to do battle with in some aspects of each story. In many ways, the treatment is very much like 'reality TV' in that it seeks to expose the underlying thought processes which are a part of the whole in psychotherapy.