PC Therapist IV was published by MindWare in 1993, and the whole program fit on a 3.5" floppy disk. I don't mean the installer fit on the disk, but rather that program lived on the disk indefinitely and could be run from it directly.
Santa Cruz has for quite a while had this interesting collision of cultures, mostly thanks to hosting a UC campus. Old hippies, conservative business types, tech people who don't want to live in SV, that kind of thing, and this disk is sort of a combination of all of that. Produced by Bruce Ehrlich (sometimes better known as Bruce Eisner), Mindware was a software publisher that specialized in what he called "mind appliances", and which operated from 1989 to 1995 (I'm not exactly sure on the end date, for reasons I'll get back to later). While a "mind appliance" may sound a bit cyberpunk, in reality these were computer programs aimed at personal and interpersonal development. There were programs to help you get along better with your significant other, Eliza style therapists, and given Bruce's interest in psychedelics, quite a lot of mind-expansions style programs, including one allegedly written by Timothy Leary.
Anyway, in 1996 he created Mind Media, which was quickly rebranded in 1997 to Mind Media Life Enhancement Network. The domain is still up, but as far as I can tell Bruce had basically abandoned it by late 2009, early 2010, which was around the time his mother died. He would die not long after in 2013, and the domain was scooped up by some weird medical equipment reseller who I don't have the training to know for sure if they're a scam, but they feel like a scam. Luckily the site was extremely well captured in the wayback machine, which is how I was able to put some of this together. It's also why I'm not sure about the 1995 end date for Mindware, which is what's in Wikipedia, since Mind Media has references to the Mindware Catalog right up until the end in 2009.
Anyway, that was tonight's rabbit hole.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Eisner
https://apnews.com/article/f4b5c908d49917ff569eabe7bc2617fc
https://web.archive.org/web/19961111051725/http://mindmedia.com/
