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Landy pioneered what he called "24-hour therapy," in which he worked with patients for long, uninterrupted periods.

His show business clientele included rock musician Alice Cooper and actors Richard Harris and Rod Steiger.

He was best known, however, for his treatment of Wilson, the troubled founding member of the iconic California surf band.

Wilson's wife hired Landy in 1975 at a time when the musician had withdrawn socially to an alarming degree.

Landy took control of Wilson's life, constantly monitoring him to keep him away from drugs and junk food.

Under Landy's care, Wilson's physical and mental health improved enough that he performed at the Beach Boys' 15th anniversary concert on New Year's Eve 1976.

Despite his success, Landy was fired around that time by the band's manager.

Six years later, after Wilson had regressed to drugs and obesity, Landy was rehired.

The psychologist said he was paid $35,000 a month for conducting 24-hour therapy from 1983 to 1986.

In 1989, Landy admitted to a single charge of unlawfully prescribing drugs and surrendered his license to practice psychology in California for at least two years.

Nikki Sudden, British musician NEW YORK — Musician Nikki Sudden, a British cult favorite since the late '70s as both a solo act and part of influential bands like Swell Maps and the Jacobites, died Sunday.

He was 49.

Sudden died a day after playing at Manhattan's Knitti...

23, 2003), and Sheffield felt an obligation to try to support Barry.

Even now, with Bud Selig expected to announce a massive investigation into steroid use that will likely include Sheffield - as first reported by the The News - the Yankee outfielder says he has no misgivings about his relationship with Bonds.

"No one ever said anything about this (but) Barry's father was dying then," Sheffield said.

"I was being a friend.

I was there for him through tough times.

Regardless of what was going on around him, I stayed there as a friend, took the abuse because of being a friend." He paused then for a moment and shook his head.

"I could have left Barry," he continued.

"I could have let him just drown in his own blood.

But I didn't.

I'm not that kind of person....As a man, I have to take all these shots that everybody comes at me with the steroids because I was there for him.

If people want to attack, go ahead because you don't know.

You don't know what kind of friend I am, what kind of person I am." His relationship with Bonds is not the only reason Sheffield has been linked to steroids, but it is certainly at the heart of it.

Sheffield detailed his contentious relationship with Bonds in a Sports Illustrated article in 2004, which is also when he described his gran...

"She was buying Christmas presents for her son that day, and really had a tremendous amount of energy.

She seemed wonderful, and very, very grounded and strong." In her introduction to the first segment of The New Medicine, Reeve tells viewers: "Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being.

For years, my husband and I lived on - and because of - hope.

Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on." The project was the last she is known to have completed before her March 6 death, and it was a fitting one: The New Medicine, which debuted in the US last week looks at how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient - not just symptoms of a disease.

Reeve's appearance after her death unintentionally underscores one of the central points of the documentary: Holistic medicine is a tool for fighting illness - not a cure-all.

"Part of the challenge is we get patients all the time that are really looking for a magic cure," said Dr Tracy Gaudet, an obstetrician- gynaecologist who heads the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine in Durham.

"We're not in the business of magic cures; we're in the business of good medicine." The centre uses any available technique - from alternative to mainstream - that might improve a patient's experienc...