I prefer the doctors that advertise on the shopping carts in Safeway.

"In the race for quality there is no ending point."

If I'm going to listen to shit like that, it's because someone is paying me, not vice versa.

What Shawn said. Rhetoric like that could ruin a coarsely-seasoned, high-cholesterol, tepidly-served entrée.

I'm there with you, Shawn!

And ditto on the "food" at Jerry's. It was the only thing still open near the movies at the Marina. Of course, I'm shocked I still had an appetite for even chicken soup, since we saw "Wanted," the worst movie I've been to in years. I love James Bond/action-thrillers/all those Die Hard movies with Bruce Willis, and, typically, at one of these movies I can suspend disbelief so far, if you dug a hole you'd find my disbelief in some province in China. But, this...way too much, way too dumb.

Exactly how bad was this movie? For the first time ever, upon leaving the theater, I contemplated tracking down the writers -- the same idiots who had Russell Crowe on the train and whistling for his horse like it was Trigger at the end of 3:10 to Yuma.

On a redeeming note, I do have to say, the rats as tiny bombs (with exploding wristwatches around them) were the one high point for me.

Good evening, our special today is wild salmon in beurre blanc with a side order of digging into your painful childhood memories.

I know, I know, I'm glib and I don't know the history of cafe-advertised psychiatry.

Gog... Fuckin' Gog, man.

Maybe Dr. Rapaport knows a thing or two about those who patronize Jerry's? Zing! I've got a million of them, folks.

Who needs a shrink anywhere you can get a good sandwich? I doubt if the good Dr. can even define "quality".

Thanks for the warning about the flick. I knew it would be tough, just watching the trailer - I have quite a bit of firearms experience.

And I had to walk out of "Iron Man" because I literally started calling the actors' lines before they said them.

Nice stunts in each, though. I'm just hoping for a flick with some actual thought behind it. If you're renting, get Alfred Hitchcock's "Rope". Then, at the end of it, try to notice they never left three rooms.

Who needs a shrink anywhere you can get a good sandwich?

Especially if you ride a motorcycle to get to the sandwich. That's double therapy right there.

There's a book out titled 'One Nation Under Therapy'... it's a good read.
G_R

So anyway, I work at this Hollywood-oriented TV network. And there are all these comic book movies coming out. And not just movies that seem like comic books, but movies that are actually written around comic books. And for about the last ten or twenty or thirty years, critics and other movie fans who want to pretend to be intellectual have been trying to come up with nuanced things to say about these films.

But the truth is, they're dim entertainments designed for children... And not just for children, but for international markets of children.

A Hollywood producer who puts an actual element of meaning or a kernel of interest in a movie like that is asleep at the switch.... He's not doing his job. The whole point of these things is to be so dumb and loud that fourteen-year-old boys across the globe get excited without risking cultural recognition.

If there are any questions about this, direct them to the California Governor's mansion. He'll run it down for you. He'll probably be so flattered that you asked that he'll tell you the truth.

Didn't those "Die Hard" movies and the Bond movies do pretty well?

Honestly? F this "therapist". I want to know why deli sandwiches are expected to cost between $9 and $15?

I was reading one deli menu that I thought it might be fun to take my kids to, and they wanted, honest to god, $12 and more for a f'n bagel and lox sandwich, and $18 for the whitefish plate. And this wasn't some Rodeo Drive deli, this was some f'n average sh*thole in Phoenix f'n Arizona on Camelback yeah, but miles from 24th St.

There are plenty of Jews in Phoenix. Yeah, there are only 3-6 delis. But $18 for the g'damn whitefish sandwich?

F'k them, f'k em with a therapist. Sideways.

Brent's Deli. Yes, in the Valley. In Northridge. $18 for the fish platter, but it easily feeds four and with absolutely delicious, to die for, lox, cod, whitefish, and creamed herring. Bagels, onions, lettuce, tomatoes.

It's the Valley, and Thank G-d it's not Jerry's, and goddamn I miss it.

Brent's Deli, Amy. It ain't Paris, it's Brent's.

(Their Romanian Steak Sandwich (Skirt Steak), AND their cabbage soup is pretty g'damn good too.)

Hard to believe Phoenix is the US's 5th largest city. What a shithole.

How can you miss that line about no ending point? I think she's admitting that she will never consider you "cured" but will just keep on milking you and milking you for an hour's worth of "therapy" for just as long as you're willing to pay to wring your hands and tell somebody, anybody, all about your miserable childhood and how tough and unfair life is.

A little info (from education-portal.com) on that PSY. D designation after her name:

The program takes less time than a Ph.D., and students can finish in three years. Upon graduation, students will be expected to understand psychology at a psychological service provider level, understand and use their clinical skills as a practitioner, and be able to use scientific findings for clinical practice.

One interesting benefit of the Doctor of Psychology Degree is that Doctor of Psychology faculty have impressively diverse theoretical orientations. About 30 percent subscribe to the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic orientation, while another 30 percent to the cognitive-behavioral orientation, and about 20 percent to systems/family systems. An assorted 20 percent favor humanistic and behavioral theories, so depending on your interests, you can look for a program that really fits your beliefs.

Overall, a Doctor of Psychology program is extremely focused and efficient, but one thing to consider is that PsyD graduates may have a more difficult time with the national licensing examination for psychologists. However, this result is most common with free-standing schools than programs within a university department.

So, to get this degree, you can go to a "free-standing school" and choose "a program that really fits your beliefs."

Does she only see patients with edible complexes?