Tag: TALES FROM SMUKLER’S COUCH

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 

Isn’t $150,000 Pocket Change For A Multi-billionaire? by Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist

by artsmuklermd, posted in MY NOVELS, Politics, Psychiatry, Self Examination, World events, a psychological view

In 24 hours Trump will be on trial for trying to bury a $150,000 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels so she’d keep quiet about their sexual-encounter. Instead of just personally giving her the money he called it a business expense.

Let’s assume that back then he was a multi-billionaire, maybe 2 billion? That’s 2,000,000 million dollars. That means that $150,000 is less than 1 thousandth of 1 percent of his net worth!

For most of us that would be like paying less than a dollar for silence.

Now he has to hear in graphic detail exactly what his penis looks like.

And this is the guy that half our country will vote for in November.

I’ve heard lots of stories in my career, but this one is way up there in the who-can-believe-such-crazy-shit stratosphere..

Thanks for reading.

If you want to get away from the weight of what our world is coming to, check out my novels. They’ll make you smile, and keep you on the edge of your seat. Honest heroes will make your day.

Art

#stormydaniels, #trumptrial, #hushmoney