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Therapizza

Someone told me that they saw an intern therapist dressed in a Pagliacci's uniform, "I wouldn't go to a therapist who was a pizza delivery guy." The reason for this is that interns don't get paid, and since there's nothing ethically compromising about pizza . . . Why not have a pizzaria that is run entirely by intern therapists?  It could be open 24/7, and the therapists could get their hours in while earning some money.  If you have a session, you get a discount on your pizza. And yes, I would call it Therapizza and it would be the ultimate crazy magnet.  All the wackos would be there at four o'clock in the morning instead of hanging around hospitals and Jack-in-the-box drive throughs.  But nobody's stabbing anybody at Therapizza because the staff are trained in verbal de-escalation, physical intervention, and good old fashioned Italian bribery.  I would tout it as a holistic approach that addresses not only the needs of the mind, but also of t