Peter M Newton

Happiness Peter M Newton

Professor Proctor has been sent into exile to the California School of Happiness Psychology. Nestled in the Catatonia foothills overlooking the numbingly beautiful coastline and banked by lush marijuana groves, the school threatens to suck Proctor down into a swamp of corruption, political incorrectness, and murder. Fortunately, an accreditation team of the National Association of Therapy Schools is on its way to investigate the school's new graduate program in Mindlessness. But drugged with Happiness Finest and tempted by sexual license, will the team be able to keep its bearings? Board Chairman Buns and Accountant Louie, along with the school's money, disappear and the school's founder, Widow Perkins, declares martial law. Her Faculty Severance and Review Committee, composed of armed guards and an alcoholic real estate agent, interview faculty to establish blame, yet the leading scapegoat proves indestructible, as do his marijuana groves, tended by promiscuous and felonious students receiving field placement credit and a percentage of sales. Meanwhile the irrepressible Buns and the divine Angelita have founded the Baha School of Orgasmic Heaven in La Paz with Louie as faculty chair. They look to establish franchises in the Middle East and beyond, perhaps even on the site of their former school in Catatonia, California. Turning over in his grave, Freud mutters, "Oy veh, the Americans. I told you so!