That was the front-page headline in the New York Times on March 5. The story recounts the experiences of Dr. Donald Levin, a 68-year-old psychiatrist who used to do a lot of talk therapy and now does nothing but prescribe psychiatric drugs to his clients. When they start to talk about their real-life struggles, he sends them away. "I had to train myself not to get too interested in their problems, and not to get sidetracked trying to be a semi-therapist," he says.
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