No More Neckties: A Memoir in Essays

Readers were drawn to psychiatrist Loren Olson's memoir, Finally Out, but many also had questions for him about his personal story. This collection of unsentimental and unapologetic essays is raw and brave. Dr. Olson shares intensely personal anecdotes about suicide, infidelity and forgiveness, being gay, pornography, and hypocrisy and how he has learned to age successfully. The memoir-in-essay format invites readers to reflect on their own lives and will facilitate conversations about the hard stuff that many families endure yet keep silent about. He reveals how sharing secrets can bring us closer together, even when things are difficult to talk about.