Release Your Stress and Reclaim Your Life Paperback - 2014

Dr. Langen graduated from the University of Illinois in 1971 with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. He worked at Temple University Counseling Center offering individual and group therapy with Temple students. He next worked at De La Salle in Towne, an alternative high school and treatment program for delinquent boys in Philadelphia. He then moved to Western New York where he worked as Supervising Psychologist at Genesee County Mental Health Services in Batavia, specializing in treatment of teens and alcoholics. At DePaul Mental Health in Rochester he held the position of Chief Psychologist and Child and Adolescent Team Leader, offering individual, family and group counseling. He also participated in the Child Abuse Treatment Program. He then entered private practice, offering individual and family therapy with children, teens and adults which he conducted in Williamsville NY and Batavia NY. He began writing a newsletter for his private practice on commonsense wisdom topics. In 2000, he switched to a biweekly newspaper column at the Daily News in Batavia which he continues to publish. His columns are also published online as Sliding Otter Newsletter, available by free subscription at www.eepurl.com/mSt-P. He has published four books. They are all available in eBooks format from Smashwords.com or Amazon Kindle Books. His first book was Commonsense Wisdom for Everyday Life, a collection of reflections on life first published in The Daily News in Batavia. The second was Young Man of the Cloth, a memoir of his nine years in the Catholic seminary and monastery. The third book was The Pastor's Inferno, a novel about an abusive priest coming to terms with his abuse. The fourth is Navigating Life: Commonsense Reflections for the Voyage, a second collection of reflections. He also maintains a blog, Chats with My Muse, a dialog with his muse, Calliope about the writing process, its challenges and delights available at www.slidingotter.wordpress.com.