Innovating


As I wrote in my eBook, I had happily practiced psychiatry for 20 years, never entertaining doing anything but seeing patients in my office 5 or 6 days a week. But a vacation to South America several years ago Read more

Service Design


Taking time away from my busy clinical practice and other life routines allows me time and mental space for thinking and writing. Yesterday's poolside reading in Bloomberg Businessweek provided the seed for this post. Audi sells very popular, high quality Read more

Productivity in Your Practice


Long ago I believed everything I read. Really. Sort of. Now I do my best to fold a dose of skepticism into any thing I read, especially in works such as the one I am about to quote. But the Read more

The Tao of Growing Your Practice


Verse 63. Tao te Ching, Stephen Mitchell translation Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series Read more

Your Limbic Systems Tells You to Play it Safe


We are ruled by subtle, unconscious currents. Does the thought of running your own business right out of residency terrify you? “In the 1890s Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology, formulated the doctrine of “affective primacy.”7 Affect Read more

Why Should Psychotherapists Blog? 4 Good Reasons


The Small Business Advocacy Council here in Chicago is a treasure trove. Laura Lee and I recently joined under our Clear Life Path group of companies. If you are here in Chicago I urge you to join, or consider Read more

Starting and Growing Concierge Psychotherapy Practices; Feedback

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The following is a note I received from a good friend of mine in Dallas, Gary Malone, MD. Gary and I have known each other since our psychiatric residency days. I recently enjoyed visiting with him and several other old friends while attending an ethics program put on by the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. While psychoanalysis as a treatment modality is now obsolete its various models of mind are still interesting and useful.

“I downloaded your book in PDF format on I-books and it is a true gem. This is all the information we talk about quietly, but no one addressees directly. It is so refreshing to have all this laid out in a professional, adult manner. I personally learned a great deal reading it. We were taught a “build it and they will come” approach combined with narcissism and overt resentment if they didn’t. This direct approach is truly a breath of fresh air! I’m recommending this book to all the residents I supervise at UT Southwestern.”

I really appreciate Gary’s willingness to read my book and take the extra effort to write this feedback. I hope others enjoy it as much as he did.

Please go to clpconsulting.org to purchase your copy. Read it then come back here to leave a comment.

Thanks.