About the Author

I spent three years on our County Mental Health Board trying to learn whether severe mental health behavior was inherited or acquired.

Substitute taught in Ventura County Juvenile Hall and at Gateway Continuation School (where there are Probation Officers on duty) and with Special Education Classes with the County and with our City School District.

Having housed and befriended people who have gone through extensive therapy trying to cure multiple personalities, paranoid schizophrenia and dysfunctional behaviors and watching improvement while in my care, it became a long-term quest to seek answers. I did find professionals don't think the same way and some have their own opinion, but hardly a clue whether it is best to maintain a mental patient or how to help that patient find their solutions.

Attended a class at U.C.L.A. taught by the Director of the Behavioral Health Department. I signed up as a writer and was overjoyed, as were the others students, as to the in-depth information on what creates a character. We literally got much more than we signed up for. He was wonderful, down-to-earth, a professional expert in both the mental health arena and for assisting writers in understanding their characters.

I have a completed screenplay called Shadows of the Mind based on a true story of one of my friends who went through extensive Gestalt Therapy without hypnosis or medication. She chronicled the cause of her angst and the process used for the cure. I've gotten excellent feedback from professionals and continue to probe into the behavior patterns of children and adults.