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"Therapy seems to have become the default prescription for all forms of unhappiness," writes Dr. Harvey Lieberman in "I'm a Therapist. Not Everyone Should Be in Therapy," a guest column that ran July 5 in The New York Times (and now lives on in cyberspace). I'm a big fan of therapy. I've had a lot of it myself. Still, Lieberman suggests that it's not appropriate for everyone, that situational distress — say, procrastination, job frustration, financial worry — isn't necessaril

Not many weeks go by when I don't think about Bill Mould, left, who was as close to a life mentor as I've had. Let me correct that: He WAS my life mentor. And I miss him terribly. There's so much I'd want to tell him, were he here. I met Bill when I was a college freshman and he was the dean (known as "the master") of South Carolina College, the honors program at the University of South Carolina. He shepherded me into intriguing classes designed to build upon my synthetic op