Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...installed the tank last April in a bedroom of her 25th-floor Manhattan apartment. Now five people a week shed their clothes, as well as their sense of time and space, and for $25 spend one hour exploring their psyches in the Epsom tub or simply enjoying a good soak...
...Daniel's clients, or "voyagers," is a New York television executive who was given his first soak as a Christmas present a year ago. After a hard week of traveling, he says, "I fly back to New York, drop my bags, sort my mail and take a tank. It kind of gives me a stop." Other Daniel clients combine the tank with traditional talk therapy before and after the Epsom bath. Though few have followed his lead, Lilly used the tank as a supplement to his own Freudian therapy. "It carried the psychoanalytic method one step further," he said...
Adults have their own treats at Schmidt's office: chances to win record albums, dinner at a local restaurant or a turkey. He offers a choice of wines in the waiting room. Patients can even try a relaxing soak in the office hot tub. Says Dr. Schmidt: "We've kept our name circulating in the community because of what we are doing. The more the name is mentioned in the community, the more likely we are to pick up a patient...
...four years in Cambridge, and no, it's not worth it to push unwanted friendships. Try to sow the seeds for a few close relationships, but don't declare yourself a social misfit if you don't fall in love immediately. Don't kid yourself that you have to soak up the week for its intrinsic significance; if you're bored of something, walk away--except the required stuff. Relax, test the waters, acquire a taste for coffee and sherry...
...hold, and restructure the athletics program to a level compatible with Ivy League education. Right now, rigorous sports programs prevent many athletes form enjoying the numerous benefits of an Ivy education. It is a tragedy for an athlete to come to Harvard and then never have a chance to soak, up its scholarship because he or she is too busy catching up after endless hours of practice. The school loses out, the team loses out, and most important, the individual loses...