"Without a Trace" - What's the job costing Jack Malone

Season 7 of "Without a Trace" opens with Jack Malone [Anthony LaPaglia] demoted - and still in a kind of pain he doesn't understand.  The therapist assigned to him asked him why the job "costs" him so much.  Malone answers that he doesn't know.  We believe him.  Where Malone is stuck is where too many of us work warriors also are.  We allow our jobs to take so much that there's little or anything left over for taking care of ourselves and attending to those in our personal lives who expect us to be paying attention.  This problem is likely the biggest sleeper in professional life.  If there were a simple answer, we would have found it.

Instead, it's a complex situation, perhaps unique to America.  Here we're allowed, even encouraged, to make our professions our chief source of torment - as well as satisfaction. Europeans, even those who do earn a living in America, usually don't default in this way.

It's difficult to find a professional who has entirely escaped this emotional mess.  If Malone's therapist is as skilled as she seems, she may be able to help this FBI open doors on this mystery.