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- Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
- Publisher: Knopf
- On Sale: March 12, 1985
- Price: $12.00
- ISBN: 978-0-394-72947-3 (0-394-72947-1)
about this book
In this practical helper's companion, the authors provide support and inspiration for us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other's needs. Here too are the deeply moving accounts of a housewife who brings zoo animals to lift the spirits of nursing home residents; a nun tending the wounded on the first night of the Nicaraguan revolution; a police officer who talks a desperate father out of leaping from a roof with his child; and other unforgettable and emotional stories.
Chapter 1: Natural Compassion
Chapter 2: Who's Helping?
Chapter 3: Suffering
Chapter 4: The Listening Mind
Chapter 5: Helping Prison
Chapter 6: The Way of Social Action
Chapter 7: Burnout
Chapter 8: Reprise: Walking Each Other Home
