Journal of Alta California

Special K for the Hollywood Set

“Where are you?”

It was a fairly odd question, seeing as I was about five feet from this woman, but her voice was friendly and I knew what she meant. I told her the truth.

“I am on the back of a very shiny black beetle.”

No one in the room seemed surprised.

In the beginning of 2018, therapist Maura Cohen received a referral for a patient. He was complicated, but she expected that. Over nearly two decades of private practice in Los Angeles and South Florida, she had developed a reputation for success with seemingly untreatable people. The man had been an active alcoholic for 30 years; there were no more than two

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