Again, that Touch of Pitch

"...of dalliance with a demon thing..."  (Yeats)

Sigmund Freud once referred to the occupational hazards of being a psychoanalyst:  you are exposed to neuroses the way early lab workers were exposed to radiation.

In the post below   is a link to a fine article in the New Oxford Review, concerning the perils for an actor  of going too deeply into his role;  and here, more recently, another article of note.

Nor is the detective’s calling -- and for Murphy it really is a calling, a vocation, not just a job -- exempt from spiritual dangers.   Learn of these -- in chilling detail -- HERE.