A handsome and sensitive psychiatrist trying to repair his marriage to Vivien after sleeping with and impregnating one of his students, Hayden. Has difficulty ending the relationship. Ben moves his family from Boston to a large old house in Los Angeles whose previous occupants died in a murder-suicide. Ben sees patients in the house, often with poor outcomes. He and his wife hire a housekeeper, Moira, and Ben sees someone different from who his wife sees when he looks at her. While actively trying to repair his relationship with his wife, he has a bad habit of lying to her. Calm with patients but quick to anger when bothered. Neighbor Larry Harvey seems to be particularly fixated on Ben.Background: Had a difficult childhood and has said he was headed down a path of destruction at one point. Prone to sleep-walking and blackouts. Show less «