Some people are under the misapprehension that therapy is for wusses. This couldn’t be further from the truth. As Richard Taite, founder of Cliffside Malibu and big proponent of behavior change, told me earlier this year, “Not only do successful people not fear therapy, they embrace it…. Psychotherapy is a tool that creates success. Smart people use it.” And therapy …

A number of people described having a very difficult first child who was therefore also a last child — or having a difficult second child and thinking, if this one had come first, there would never have been a second one. Everybody telling these stories had experienced that sense of direct parental responsibility — the bad sleeper must be a …