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...XMAS SPIRIT, COUNSELING 5?, advertises a sign on a booth outside the Southern California Counseling Center in Los Angeles. Below it is a second inscription: "The psychiatrist is in." He really is: psychiatrist Benjamin Weininger is dispensing advice from the booth at a nickel per patient...
Fans of Cartoonist Charles Schulz will recognize that the center's publicity gimmick is a direct steal from the comic strip Peanuts, in which Good Ol' Charlie Brown's mean, cranky friend Lucy deals out her own brand of caustic counseling from a "lemonade" booth. But Psychiatrist Weininger apparently knows his Freud better than he knows his Schulz; at this time of year, Lucy's fee is not a nickel. Every October, because it is less comfortable to man an open booth in cold weather, she raises her price to seven cents...
...says Tromsø Sound County Sheriff Knut Kruse, "people seem to be different during winter. They become edgy, complaining, sour. They long for the light, talk about the darkness, condemn it. They display much more of a 'couldn't care less' attitude." In Tromsø, reports Psychiatrist Harald Reppesgaard of Asgard Mental Hospital, "the whole city slows down. People's concentration and work capacity are reduced, and they are always tired." Adds R. Kaare Rodahl, an Oslo physiologist who has done research in the Arctic: "The polar night has a tendency to bring out the least...
...methadone is powerful stuff and carries its own dangers. To Psychiatrist Mitchell Rosenthal of Phoenix House and Psychiatrist Leon Epstein and Sociologist Henry Lennard of the University of California at San Francisco, methadone "permits the illusion of a solution" while actually doing more harm than good. In a much-discussed article in Science last spring, they argued that methadone maintenance "reinforces the popular illusion that a drug can be a fast, cheap and magical answer to complex human and social problems." Because methadone is addictive, opponents also find maintenance morally abhorrent and believe that moving an addict from heroin...
...psychological jungle, whose advance he slows by drinking a bottle of whisky a day. One of the beasts lurking here is his beloathed father, a rich bully whose obnoxious character was seen in Fifth Business, and when Father dies mysteriously, Staunton flees from Toronto to the office of a psychiatrist in Zurich...