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From its inception, psychoanalysis has been plagued by an elitist image. Most patients are middle and upper class, and even today only 2% are nonwhite. Analysts say that the treatment works best for the YAVIS (Young, Adaptable, Verbal, Intelligent and Successful). It also helps to be W (Wealthy). A psychoanalytic hour (actually it is now usually 45 to 50 minutes) costs from $20 to $100, with the average at $50, or $12,000 a year for the five-times-a-week treatment recommended by Freud. As a concession to economic reality, most American psychoanalysts see patients only once or twice...
Sadly, many of them are now reduced to roaming the streets, annoying and frightening the citizenry. Some communities, even such liberal ones as Manhattan's Upper West Side, which has been flooded by thousands of deinstitutionalized patients, are beginning to cry out in anger. Says Manhattan Councilman An-.onio Olivieri, a liberal reformer: "The indiscriminate dumping of mental patients is creating new psychiatric ghettos in the cites. The policy is absurd." Psychiatrists are starting to share his concern. They fear that the increasing number of schizophrenics and other psychotics on the loose, particularly in the cities, may yet develop into...
...visitors prefer Scotch or martinis. After soaping off the Coppertone, they generally settle for dinner and dreams. For the indefatigable, however, there is nightlife on Maui. There are waiting lines outside the Lost Horizon disco at the Wailea Beach Hotel; the Royal Lahaina's Foxy Lady packs in upper teenagers and the Tommy Dorsey set in equal numbers. The island's hottest spot is the Bluemax, in the town of Lahaina, where visiting Elton John and Linda Ronstadt have done their stuff off the cuff; the place is packed nightly in hopes that other drop-in stars...
...capital's crowds were noticeably sparser than those that had greeted Richard Nixon in 1974. This may have been partly because Carter's presidential motorcade appeared on such short notice, partly because it rolled through the tranquil upper-middle-class suburb of Heliopolis rather than Cairo's crowded working-class quarter. Yet the smaller turnout may also have reflected the Cairenes' growing skepticism at the possibility of peace being near. Said one: "We have been waiting now for peace for more than a year. If Carter has brought peace, we can give him a better farewell...
...more hedonistic pleasures. Falling in with a tribe of long-haired dropouts, he soon discovers countercultural drugs and politics. Thanks to a whimsically funny plot twist, he also falls in love with Sheila (the voluptuous but innocent Beverly D'Angelo), a debutante he gallantly rescues from the upper-crust sobriety of Short Hills...