Writing – Page 54 – Inside The Mind of a Psychiatrist

In SKIN DANCE, a mystery, Art Smukler takes you inside the mind of Jake Robb, a forty-one year old Los Angeles psychiatrist, whose personal life is disintegrating as he struggles to accept the fact that his marriage is over.

After he spends an evening at Skin Dance, a strip bar, his empty life is transformed into one of fear and desperation. An unknown stalker, who vows to destroy him, is following Jake’s every move.

From the posh Palos Verdes Peninsula, to the downtown strip bars, to the central California coast, Jake must use all the psychiatric skills he can muster to understand and thwart the unknown assailant. The suspense mounts as a deranged killer determined to destroy his prey battles a man with inordinate psychological skills who will do whatever it takes to protect himself and his family.

Skin Dance is now available in all eBook formats and will soon be available in paperback.

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When was the last time you drove in your car without the radio, Sirius or a book on CD? It can be dangerous driving without background noise, because it forces one to actually listen to the voice in his own head.

Is the voice saying you’re angry or unhappy or in love? When it finally registers what it’s saying, that’s when the fun or the trouble starts. Understanding your feelings is the beginning of potentially making decisions that can change your life. Improve your marriage? Start a new business? Have that long avoided heart-to-heart with a friend?

All is possible, and change, when understood and carefully examined, can be a wonderful experience — or not. Let the silence in. It will be filled with the words that come from a place you may have been avoiding.

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