How do I do equivalent of File/Place in Photoshop

This was asked way back in 2009, and at that time the answer was no, not in V2... We're now at the end of V4 and pushing V5. So, how do I do the equivalent of the File/Place in Bridge?

Hi Rikk,
The time you use Place is:
From LR or Bridge or wherever, open an image in Photoshop. You can open it as a smart object or just a normal image.
Now go back to Bridge and take another image and do a File/Place on it. It'll go into Photoshop as a layer above the existing image,
not as a separate image.
It isn't that there's no way around it - you can always open multiple images in Photoshop then select and copy the second one.
I'm just curious whether or not this functionality from Bridge has been implemented, and if so, how I access it. If it hasn't, that's fine 'cause there's always
the brute force workaround, but it's a convenient way to assemble things when you don't have all the images you'll be using side-by-side so they're not
convenient to do an "open as layers" from LR…
Some of the folks I"ve been watching do Photoshop seminars have been exclusively using Bridge as a front-end or mini-Bridge from within Photoshop. When
I see them do some of the interaction between the tools, I usually try to figure out how to do the same thing in Lightroom since that's usually my front-end.
But, for example, (having nothing to do with the question at hand) the interaction between camera raw and Photoshop for smart objects is limited to Bridge.
You can OPEN the image in PS from Lightroom, but you can't go BACK to Lightroom to make changes. You can only go to Bridge. And I suspect once you've changed
the raw file in Bridge, Lightroom doesn't know anything about the change until you re-sync the folder. I HOPE I’m wrong because otherwise it seems like there's
a really good chance that you'll clobber the changes if you save metadata to files and haven't already sync'ed, but that's a problem for more research…
Anyhow, as I said, a seminar was the source for my question, and I found an old topic in the Lightroom forum from 2009 where it was asked. At that time, the answer
was "not yet"...

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