Word: psychotherapist
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...Landess, 38, a psychotherapist, and his wife, Marcia McBroom, 28, an actress and model, live in Manhattan and between them earn $80,000. But, Ira contends, they are still struggling to keep their heads above water. Says he: "We have no exorbitant expenses, but it is not easy to save." Perhaps so, but they rent a two-bedroom penthouse at $616 a month, take lots of taxis, go on frequent overseas vacations, eat in gourmet restaurants and have a housekeeper who helps look after their baby. Ira believes that "you can make do with one income, but you get accustomed...
...cloaks as he obsessively tries to transform his son-in-law into a proper husband. But the newlyweds insist on going their own comic way: secreting a poet's mad mother in one of the nursing homes, serving as interior decorators to a psychotherapist who conducts his sessions in coffins. When Sudah renounces art for yoga, embracing celibacy as well, Mara is demoted from wife to sister. Disgruntled, she continues to work on her magnum opus, a series of short stories on the theme: "How I Lost My Virginity"; they form a memorable stand-up comedy within Reich...
...Chambers Brothers' "The Time Has Come Today" gets louder and louder, the tension mounts--Dern aims his deranged look and the automatic weapon held in his shaky hands at his wife. Suddenly there is a knock on the door. In wheels Voight, who in his native, mellow, California psychotherapist way explains that what everyone needs is a little openness. Dern shouts for a bit, but then succumbs--laying down his weapon in disgrace instead of blowing everyone away...
...floor-length white robe. One by one, the candidates for instant sanyas prostrate themselves before him and receive a 108-bead mala (necklace) with the guru's plastic-covered picture dangling like a locket, and a personalized tidbit of wisdom from the guru's lips. (To a psychotherapist: "You will need much work because a psychiatrist is more puzzled in a way than a psychotic. Lose control. Let it happen.") Each apostle also receives a new name. Henceforth Richard Price will be Swami Geet Govind. One unfortunate drew the name Krishna Christ...
...their late 20s, or older, searching frantically for spiritual answers. Ma Prem Ida, who dropped out after 15 years as a Las Vegas waitress, then tried est, says, "I want to get out of myself, have fun with myself, do what my feelings tell me." A 35-year-old psychotherapist named Tim who practices in the Midwest found his techniques running dry and is searching for what he calls "radical autonomy." America, he says, is "an emotional desert. That's why they come out here." The ashram's new publicist, Swami Krishna Prem, a former Montreal ad writer...