ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A practising psychiatrist as well as a poet, Ron Charach says, “There is, and perhaps always will be, a healthy amount of suspicion, even competition, between poets and psychological healers. After all, the two professions both strive to understand the psyche, and achieve an expertise in the full range of human emotions. As a poet who happens to be a psychiatrist, I often find myself in the role of trying to demystify the beliefs and practices of one of these groups to the other.”