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Sound Idea. Dole, a specialist in metabolic medicine, and Nyswander, a psychiatrist, are still convinced that properly supervised methadone treatment is an eminently sound idea. But they admit there has been a "nearly universal reaction against the concept of substituting one [addictive] drug for another." There is further opposition in cities from neighborhood groups complaining that the methadone clinics bring an influx of dangerous addicts. The program has also been tarnished by disclosures that some clinic operators and physicians have collected scandalously high Medicaid fees for doing little more than giving addicts a daily dose of methadone mixed with fruit...
...example: Dr. Jenny Isaksson (Liv Ullmann), the psychiatrist whose mental disintegration and attempted suicide are analyzed in the film, dreams (after the attempt) that she is in a small room surrounded by a crowd of anguished patients. There are so many of them that she can give only the most perfunctory attention to each. Ullmann approaches one woman and peels off her facial skin, which is a mask hiding a face covered with festering sores. Ullmann turns away. She opens a closet door to discover her near-senile grandfather. "I'm afraid of dying," he whispers. She tells...
...very tentative field for anything like precise study. Such theories, in fact, have been greeted with skepticism by orthodox psychologists, but Sheehy was enthusiastic. She switched her focus from genetics to adult development, talked to Levinson and two other researchers with strikingly similar findings, U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Roger Gould and Harvard Psychiatrist George Vaillant, and plunged into her own life-cycle interviewing. The results: one of the most successful series of articles in New York magazine's history, and a $37,500 advance for a book (Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life, due this month from E.P. Dutton...
...been blind since the age of eight from glaucoma and is the first sightless American medical student in this century (TIME, April 29, 1974), has surprised the skeptics. In a few weeks the physician-to-be will receive his medical degree, and he hopes to become a psychiatrist...
Equus. A psychiatrist and his horse (or something like that) the Wilbur Theater, 252 Tremont St. in Boston at the end of April. Mon-Sat at 8 p.m., matinees...