Shrink-Rap Press was born in 1994 on a Royal Flying Doctor Service plane in NSW, Australia.

Chris Wever and Neil Phillips, two Australian psychiatrists, were travelling on the plane to run clinics in the middle of NSW when Chris showed Neil the manuscript for a little book called "The Secret Problem", which was for kids with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Neil liked the book very much and, being a cartoonist, offered to illustrate it. To this day Neil doesn't know if Chris set him up or was too polite to refuse the offer.

To bypass having to deal with a publisher, Neil and Chris decided to design and print the book themselves and over a late night cup of coffee invented the name Shrink-Rap Press. The name was immediately discarded as a terrible pun but it had a life of its own and wouldn't go away.

Shrink-Rap Press (Australia) Pty Ltd is now a company dedicated to producing books using cartoons and simple text to talk about psychiatric and emotional problems. Some of the books are for kids; some are for adults.

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