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Semrad: The Heart of a Therapist
By Susan Rako and Harvey Mazer
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For the past half-century, Harvard-trained psychiatrists who learned their art and skill from a genius have quoted his wisdom in their work with patients and in teaching others the practice of psychotherapy.
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.
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.
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