Category: Raising Children

What a Deal! Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist

by artsmuklermd, posted in MY NOVELS, Psychiatry, Psychological suspense novels, Raising Children, Self Examination, Writing

Starting March 19, 2025 for I week only, Little Italy, a psychological suspense novel, is available for $1.99. Just click on the cover and you’ll be taken directly to the Amazon book site.

Joe Belmont is a 1st-year medical student who puts in sixty-hour weeks as a waiter to support himself. Then without warning his saintly mother is murdered in her modest home, and his uncle, his only living relative, dies in a suspicious auto accident. Now, for no apparent reason, whoever killed them are trying to kill him.

From multiple hiding places within the Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up, to the Jersey shore hospital where he was placed at bedrest for 12 nightmarish months, to the financial district of Zurich, Switzerland, Joe and his girlfriend, Lara, run for their lives.

Lara thinks the answer is locked up deep in Joe’s unconscious mind. Joe thinks that the more practical answer is to get a gun, learn how to use it, and disappear… But then what?

Thanks for reading.

Best Wishes, Art

#Littleitaly, #psychologicalsuspensenovels 

No Means No, Right? by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist

by artsmuklermd, posted in Politics, Psychiatry, Raising Children, Self Examination, World events, a psychological view

When your child runs out in a busy street, we emphatically say, no! That’s dangerous! A car can hit you. Don’t do that.

If it happens again, we don’t let go of our little one’s hand. We can’t allow someone we love to be injured, or worse.

If we love our country, we expect the justice system to do the same, to protect us. And most of the time they do. Dozens of people who attacked our capital are in prison.

If you threaten President Biden, and encourage your followers to rise up against him, you need to be stopped.

Why are our judges and even the attorney-general not stopping Trump? He’s attacking every fabric of our society. They know that if you say no, you must act on it. If you break the law there are consequences. If you don’t back up the law with reasonable action, people will continue to act out. In Los Angeles when the laws for how much you can steal without being put in prison was lowered, there was a rash of smash-and-grabs, until a special police force was set up.

Letting our ex-president threaten our society isn’t helping anyone. If anything it’s encouraging more and more outlandish anti-societal behavior. If the ex-leader of the free world can do it, why can’t we?

Judges, administrators, leaders, do your job. Free speech doesn’t mean continual lying and encouraging insurrection. Right?

Happy Reading, Art

#smash&grabs, #settinglimits, #raisingchildren, #protecting society