Semrad

For the past half-century Harvard trained psychiatrists who learned their art and skill from a genius have quoted his observations about life in their work with patients and in teaching others the practice of psychotherapy.</P><P>Here is the unique and heralded collection of remarks by this extraordinary teacher Dr. Elvin Semrad originally recorded by Susan Rako and Harvey Mazer during residency-training at Harvard's Massachusetts Mental Health Center in the 1960's.</P>The book brings the reader a sense of closeness to the personal informal aspects of this man who combined knowledge gentleness and strength in a most unusual way.<br>--Otto Will M.D.