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Dates: during 2008-2008
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...emergency mental-health center in downtown Reykjavík to help citizens distressed by the nation's economic implosion. Located on the second floor of an old health clinic, it stands ready to treat a torrent of mentally anguished Icelanders. As yet, business has been slow. Dr. Ragnar Ólafsson, one of two full-time psychologists assigned to the clinic, was savoring a sandwich alone in his office at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 13. "Not many people have come so far," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the Real Pain Begins | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...especially when Gordon Brown uses antiterrorism laws against Iceland," he says, referring to the British Prime Minister's move to invoke an antiterrorism law to freeze Icelandic companies' assets in the U.K. "The people here not only suffer financially - it also makes us feel bad." Indeed, says psychologist Ólafsson," Icelanders have always seen themselves as an independent people, and now we simply can't be as self-sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the Real Pain Begins | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...emergency mental-health center in downtown Reykjavík to help citizens distressed by the country's economic implosion. Located on the second floor of an old health clinic, it stands ready to treat a torrent of mentally anguished Icelanders. As yet, business has been slow. Dr. Ragnar Ólafsson, one of two full-time psychologists assigned to the clinic, was savoring a sandwich alone in his office a few days ago. "Not many people have come so far," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Europe's Financial Bust | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...especially when Gordon Brown uses antiterrorism laws against Iceland," he says, referring to the British Prime Minister's move to invoke an antiterrorism law to freeze Icelandic companies' assets in the U.K. "The people here not only suffer financially - it also makes us feel bad." Indeed, says psychologist Ólafsson, "Icelanders have always seen themselves as 
 an independent people, and now we simply can't be as self-sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcards from Europe's Financial Bust | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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