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This week on The Business, it's the best of the business as we put Hollywood on the couch with writer-turned therapist Dennis Palumbo. Go nowhere. It's the business from NPR.

Thank you. Dennis Palumbo worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood for 15 years, with feature film credits like My Favorite Year and TV shows like Welcome Back Cotter. But like so many writers, he was also in therapy and at some point realized he liked the process of therapy better than the business of show business.

He went back to school and in the nearly two decades since, he's been treating Hollywood

creative types for their very special brand of neurosis.

With everything that's been going on in Hollywood

lately, we thought it would be a good idea to head back to the couch with Dennis Palumbo.

The business host, Claude Browdegner, spoke with him last May.

Welcome to the business. Nice to be here. Thank you.

You say that it's the same everywhere therapy, except here. Here, where it's different.

What do you mean?

What I mean is that the issues that I see with my patients, you know, anxiety, depression,

relationship issues are the same as everyone else has, except for the fact that in the Hollywood community, first of all, for a creative person, these issues are tremendously

important because if you're a writer or a director or an actor, you're so affected by this

material.

You can be having an argument with your wife and if you're a bricklayer, you can still lay

bricks.

But if you're a screenwriter or an actor, the raw materials of your work is your personal life.

And so it's really wrapped up in it.

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