Befriending

Download or read book Befriending written by Monica Dickens and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the suicide prevention organization called the Samaritans whose brand of "listening therapy" extends to every major city in the US. Dickens (novelist and founder of the US Samaritans) gives an engaging picture of the volunteer hotline that works around the clock, and the early resistance to it by psychiatrists and government bureaucrats. The volume also includes an introduction and epilogue by Carlton Jackson (history, Western Kentucky U.). Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR