Shame — Daniel Tompkins

In the middle years and second episode of this family saga, Janelle and Cookie Marin morph into successful entrepreneurs in quaint suburbia of Glen Burnie. Jan attends to a private therapy practice at a leisurely pace and, during early years, is close to their three children. When old enough to go off to school, she transforms from rinky-dink shrink to business maven and converts a team of Psych 101 eclectic psychologists in a sleepy family counseling clinic into a profitable enterprise. Colleagues are trained to be national pollsters who, in a personality survey, sample the largest cross-section of the mental health profession uncovering 210 dark-side activities of psychotherapists; e.g., 29% of therapists give advice they would not follow; 96% of therapists report verbal spousal abuse; 39% of therapists report their own substance abuse.