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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...
...tank. Daniel bars druggies, and many tank centers make customers sign a paper stating that they have taken no drugs. But even a carefully controlled tank trip can turn out to be a bummer. Daniel's TV executive, who shows up every Friday for a simple soak, had a harrowing first experience: he felt that he was a neutron flying through space at incredible speeds. "I was so scared," he says, "I didn't use the tank for months...
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...