There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.
The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience.
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
I don't like the term mid-life crisis.
