Art Smukler, MD was born and raised in Philadelphia, went to college and medical school in Pennsylvania, and completed his psychiatric training at UCLA. He is a board-certified psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of adults with a subspecialty in adolescents. As a member of the UCLA faculty, he ran an award-winning psychotherapy conference for psychiatric residents and received the coveted “Golden Ear” award. He has published in psychiatric journals, and won the award for excellence in creative writing at The Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
Now a full-time author, he applies his deep understanding of the human psyche to the motivations of his fictional characters.
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Art,
My wife and I moved up the hill in early 2018 as she needed a knee replacement surgery. Our house in Torrance was a great place, but the 3 flights of stairs killed her knee. Anyway, we began to get ready for the move. Sell/donate things that wouldn’t fit in our new condo, box up stuff to put in storage, have painting, new chandeliers installed, and unboxing everything from the move. It was all physically and mentally exhausting as we had to pay extra to get the seller of our condo to vacate early as the buyer of our house had to close by a certain date to avoid investment tax penalties.
Inside The Mind of a Psychiatrist 
Art,
My wife and I moved up the hill in early 2018 as she needed a knee replacement surgery. Our house in Torrance was a great place, but the 3 flights of stairs killed her knee. Anyway, we began to get ready for the move. Sell/donate things that wouldn’t fit in our new condo, box up stuff to put in storage, have painting, new chandeliers installed, and unboxing everything from the move. It was all physically and mentally exhausting as we had to pay extra to get the seller of our condo to vacate early as the buyer of our house had to close by a certain date to avoid investment tax penalties.
But we got through it all.
My best,
Mike Busman
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