Titled "The Couch" (http://www.thecouch.com/), this daily online drama features eight dynamic, soul-searching, fast-living characters who meet for group therapy in a psychiatrist's office in Manhattan's Flatiron Building.
The site features weekly group sessions and daily diary entries, and will launch with one month of dramatic background so readers can become deeply and immediately involved in the characters and plot. Access to The Couch and to Transference, its related online discussion area, is free to anyone on the Web. Information about advertising and corporate sponsorship opportunities on The Couch is available by email (advertising@thecouch.com) or telephone (415/227-4335 x26).
"The Couch draws its strength from our amazingly talented, experienced, and diverse writers who were fascinated by the Web as a story-telling medium," said David Steuer, executive producer of The Couch and Couch participant. "While the weekly Sessions and Liaisons provide the main thread of a collaboratively developed plot, each Couch writer creates and directs the trajectory of his or her individual character. The structure allows us to share real-life anecdotes about pregnancy, suicide, doing the personals, and fear of commitment, but also gives us the license to embellish our lives with pure fiction and camp because it makes a good story. Often we don't even know what is fact and what is fiction