Peter M. Newton

I became a psychologist at the tender age of 26, taught in the Yale Psychiatry Department, and later at Washington and UC Berkeley and then at professional schools. I raised Arabian horses on a small farm in Connecticut and later in life took up winemaking and sailing. I am well globalized with two of my three life partners being from so-called Third World Countries, and one son-in-law from India and another from Romania. What has kept me going through thin and thick is writing. Scribo ergo sum, I write, therefore I am. I've written two books on Freud, "Freud: From Youthful Dream to Midlife Crisis," and "Unorthodox Freud: The View from the Couch" (with Lohser) and one on consulting to law firms, "Leadership in Groups: A Casebook." My most recent books have been novels. The first, "Happiness," lampoons graduate education in psychology and contemporary psychotherapies. The next two, "Moon Over the Potomac," and "Frumpe," are presidential farces. Though neither is modeled on our former president, both are inspired by him. One of these fictional leaders, Raymond Gantry, reappears as a candidate for the presidency of a failing girls religious college in "Colchester." You might also like, "Waypoints to a new Life: Learning to Sail at Fifty," an autobiographical account of my quixotic adventures (Quixote was 49), conquering the seven seas.