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Other jockeys call Steve Brooks, 41, "the psychiatrist," and swear that he talks to his horses. If he does-and Brooks does not deny it-he speaks the right language. Last week, at Florida's Gulfstream Park, he rode Johnsal, a three-year-old colt, to victory in a $3,000, six-furlong sprint. For Johnsal, it was win No. 1 in a year of trying. For Brooks, it was win No. 4,000, in 25 years of succeeding. Only Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Willie Shoemaker and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards have won more races...
There was this baseball fan, see, and one night he had a dream. The New York Mets were leading the National League, and the Los Angeles Angels were on top of the American League. "Crazy," said the fan when he woke up. "Crazy," agreed his psychiatrist, who was also a baseball fan. "But you know what? I had the same dream...
Milledgeville has now been taken out of woolhat politics and reformed by a topflight psychiatrist imported from New York, Dr. Irville MacKinnon. Its budget is up from $2.49 per patient per day to $3.29 (against a national average of $5.40). It has 50 psychiatric doctors, admits 6,000 new patients a year, and sends 60% of them home within 90 days...
...also has a 20-bed unit in Augusta, and there are centers with ten to a dozen beds in Macon, Columbus and Albany. But because the facilities are still so limited, the Georgia clinics have strict eligibility rules. To get in, a patient must have the backing of a psychiatrist and another physician; he must be seeking help voluntarily; he cannot be currently addicted to drugs or alcohol; and the admitting psychiatrist must be convinced that his illness is likely to be arrested within a month...
...prompt treatment. But in practice, virtually every client has been so relieved by talking things out with his consultant (and sometimes his minister as well) that an imminent crack-up has apparently been averted. For those with more severe upsets, scattered over New Mexico's sparsely settled acreage, Psychiatrist William Sears goes barnstorming in his own plane, visits each district at least once a month. In three years the three consultants have handled 1,800 cases in 2,775 interviews, referred fewer than 1% for intensive psychiatric treatment...