I'm one of those late 60s types who was never really a hippie (they came a few years down the pike)... Traveled a lot of the roads available down the years. Ended up here, which is not a bad place to find oneself.Been there, watched it happen, even lent a hand. Generally you'll find me at the margins. A professional dilettante who does not understand the phrase, "mind your own business" (synonym for "sociologist").Toward the end of my graduate work, I ended up starting a hypnosis clinic (and, by the way, used the data as part of my Ph.D. dissertation). Also began teaching self-hypnosis through University of California Extension. That became the inspiration for "Strategic Self-Hypnosis," which rapidly became a trade best seller in its original edition and went through 10 printings. A few years later, Prentice-Hall asked for a follow up -- they didn't like the title "Anti-Hypnosis" (which was a British type pun to imply de-hypnotizing oneself) so we settled on "Creative Self-Hypnosis." They sold a Japanese translation (which is absolutely beautiful) and a Spanish translation (which I have never seen) and then the editor left before the book was released in the US. So it never was really marketed. Nor was the second, revised addition of "Strategic," which also was given a ghastly bad cover. Eventually Prentice-Hall decided to drop the books and so I had it reprinted by iUniverse, with much nicer covers but no chance to update them. I am thrilled that people are still reading these books, sometimes writing me to say great things about these books and how they have helped them. I am still on the line for a third book that I have promised...Professionally, as a graduate student I became interested in doing something with sociology other than academic research and teaching. Making it useful to human beings. So I cofounded what is now the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociolo0gy and, working with a number of very experienced sociological practitioners, put out a textbook designed to turn on students to the possibilities of "Using Sociology: an Introduction from the Applied and Clinical Perspectives. " That's now in its 3rd edition. More recently, I co-edited a follow-up text of case studies, "Doing Sociology."Back on a more clinical track, I got to know Nathan Hurvitz briefly and published a seminal article by him in the "Journal of Applied Behavioral Science." The acknowledged founder of peer self help groups and a sociologist, social worker, and radical psychotherapist, when his area of Los Angeles changed from middle class Jewish to lower- and working-class African American, Nate, unlike other therapists, stuck around and figured out how to do marriage and family therapy with this population. Nate had sold his life's work on his methods to McMillan but then they dropped it, shortly before he died. I ended up inheriting a thousand pages of manuscript, some chapters only in outline, revised and published as "Marriage and Family Therapy: the Sociocognitive Approach." AS his family has it, basically as a mitzvah. The book has received glowing reviews from professional journals around the world. It is unique in that it has one living author and one posthumous author, one living preface writer and a posthumous preface write, the great Herbert Blumer (one of the founders of the sociological social psychology tradition of Symbolic Interactionism, in case you're interested).I would rather write fantasy and science fiction, but I have to learn how to plot and wite character.... I'm an addict.I now live just south of Portland, Oregon. I continue to marketing research and consulting out of my home office, and help my wife, Kathryn Frederick, with her Americana music labels, Frederick Productions and Red Newt Records. Amazon.com sells 'em. Keeps us in the midst of the fabulous Portland live music scene. To her great annoyance (being the widow of a truly great and legendary songwriter, guitarist and singer/bandleader, Jeffrey Fredrick) I mess around with one of five-stringed thingies that jokes are made of.