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Befriending The American Samaritans Monica Dickens Edited, with Preface, Introduction, and Epilogue by Carlton Jackson Popular Press This book relates the founding in America, and evaluates the effectiveness of, a branch of the worldwide organization of volunteers known as the Samaritans, committed to the prevention of suicide through the simple means of "listening therapy." Great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, Monica Dickens was best known in England as a novelist; in America, as the founder of the U.S. Samaritans. Today Samaritans are in every large city of the country. Volunteers work twenty-four hours a day, answering telephones or meeting troubled people, to try to give them, in nonjudgmental ways, the help they need to get their lives back in order. For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

LC: 96-010815 HV 152 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-87972-699-7 Cloth $35.95 t ISBN 978-0-87972-700-0 Paper $15.95 t Add titles to your shopping cart by clicking on the "Add this book to cart" link above. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with your credit card. Click here for a further explanation of the shopping cart feature Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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