There's an old photograph that opens my memoir, Confessions of a Former Child: A Therapist's Memoir. I know, intellectually, that "inner child work" is a real clinical tool, and that psychodrama founder J.L. As the video replayed, the drama that unfolded was as rich as any I'd taken part in or directed in real time. My inner child was alive, and he needed a hug. I told him he'd be worried about a million things that would never happen.