By Richard Esser

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It might be wrongly assumed on reading them that the helping I have described is not particularly difficult or demanding. It might, furthermore, be wrongly assumed that the kinds of difficulties described were not particularly severe; otherwise they would not have responded well to such helping efforts. Thus a word of explanation is needed to make clear why I have taken such a risk, why I have set forth these stories at this point and why I have done so in such skeletonized form. All the ideas set forth in this book are based upon my work in helping people.

I asked him whether he would like to have the card. ” What a thrill for a sixteen year old! We stopped. A year later I got a telephone call from Tom. He asked whether he could come and visit me at the Center. He looked quite different when we met, dressed in a suit, tie, and white shirt. He was self-confident and self-assured. We exchanged small talk. It later became clear to me why he had come. He was proud of himself and what he had accomplished. And I was inordinately proud of him. 20 Chapter 2.

During those ten years I gradually found good answers to the six questions about psychiatry that troubled me so. 44 Chapter 4. Learning Basic Lessons in Harlem My colleagues in psychiatry and psychology who worked outside of Harlem usually wondered whether it was possible to work effectively with those who lived in Harlem. It was often taken for granted that people who had least education, who lived in near poverty and who knew little about modern psychiatry and psychology would be unmotivated and unsuitable for such helping.

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