An eminent psychologist confided to me: “Whenever any group of really good research psychologists gets together socially, after a few drinks they always – and I do mean always – talk about why novelists are so much better at it than we are.” One psychologist came at the question from a different direction. He became an unpublished novelist, and then published a monograph telling other psychologists how they can further their careers in this same manner.
J Kelly Moreno, professor of psychology at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, wrote a case study called The Psychologist as Novelist. It appears in the journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.
