CULTURAS IN VITRO
Has pop culture couched our fear of the shrink? And when it comes to the New Jersey mobster's weekly visits to a psychiatrist's office, a cornerstone of HBO's ''The Sopranos,'' some Bostonians may have concluded that if it works for Tony Soprano, it could work for me.
[O]ver the last few years, the number of area residents who have sought outpatient therapy has sharply increased. At a time when psychiatry is front and center on both the small and big screen - ''The Sopranos'' wraps up its fourth season on Sunday and ''Analyze That,'' a sequel to 1999's thug-in-therapy film, ''Analyze This,' opens Friday - the crowded path to therapists' offices