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WHO I AM
I started life as a deliriously happy boy full of myself who loved to make up and tell stories. And then like the vast majority of humans I suffered serious setbacks that grounded my life as much in adversity and its lies as in truth. Which meant, as I grew up that what I did and understood was partly true and partly false, distorted as everything is to some extent by the disappointments and betrayals that plague all of us at one time or another.
Like most psychotherapists I chose the vocation of psychology as a way of unraveling the mysteries of my own life. Eventually it worked to some extent. As far as I’m concerned psychology is where it’s at in the 21st century, even more than technology. It’s the first science to address who the scientist is—which is essential because the scientist is always part of what they’re describing, though most scientists don’t seem to know that. It’s impossible for humans to be entirely objective. I for one think it’s a silly goal to try and be a machine no matter how powerful they seem to make us. When being human is so extraordinary and incredibly beautiful no matter how difficult it is sometimes.
At heart I’m a psychologist. I’ve always been since I was a little boy. I can remember thinking deep thoughts at three about how people tick and marveling at the power of it.
When my children finished college and I had a chance to pursue my own dreams I became a storyteller. My first mentor was Bernard Shaw, a man who mixed philosophy and drama—exactly what I needed. I had some success as a playwright, and a little as a songwriter. But my ideas, and the dramatic context that literature offers them didn’t jell until I became a novelist. Eight books later my understanding of psychology had matured to the point where I could produce my two most definitive works—THE gOD cHILD and ART & APHORISM.
copyright© 2007, 2008 Don Fenn. All rights reserved.
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