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Therapy
'My
husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath, and
hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.' - Michelle
Pfeiffer
The
Remarkable Survival Strategy of Mr Lester Levenson - by
Stephen J.M. Bray
In a letter designed to
publicise his process of self-help therapy, Lester Levenson
wrote: "Almost forty years ago with my back to the wall
and with only three months to live, I was forced to search for
the answers to life. I decided to ask myself what it is we all
want, and the answer came to me. We all want to be happy!"
Stephen Bray has written an
article describing the background to Levenson's system within
the context of our main theme of survival strategies.
Lester Levenson, incidentally,
published the above-quoted letter at the age of 84 years.I
Coming
Home to Self - Identity and survival issues in trans-racial
and inter-cultural adoption and fostering - by Michael Mallows
This
article is about belonging. In it Michael Mallows draws
heavily on his experience of post-adoption work, particularly
with ethnically-visible children, and with the range of
strategies they are obliged to devise in order to cope with
their feelings of rejection, of betrayal, of nostalgia.
This
is about how they survive!
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