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Article: Interview: Jan de Vries: Medicine for the soul
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- May 16, 2004
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FROM the moment a patient walks into his consulting room, Jan de
Vries studies every tiny detail. The way they walk. The way they
talk. Hair. Eyes. Not so different, then, from the professional
interviewer. So here is that very first glimpse of the interviewee:
up through the stairwell of his Edinburgh clinic, Jan de Vries is
visible on the top landing. An array of our photographer's equipment
is spread out and de Vries stands, a small figure in a neat suit and
tie, hands clasped one over the other, smiling stiffly at the camera.
Climbing towards him, I notice he looks uncomfortable facing the
lens.
Downstairs, we observe one another across his desk. Sometimes, he
claims, he can tell what ...