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Jessie Taft: therapist and social work educator
"In this volume there evolves the strong, forthright, deeply compassionate, immediately and humanly responsive scholar, psychotherapist and social work educator who was Jessie Taft. Through her own writings and through the story of her life, which becomes their context, so comprehendingly and movingly told by Virginia Robinson, her lifelong friend and companion, she is here revealed as an always powerful, developing, and then fully developed professional self. The interaction of these two women, which served as spark to the genius of each, and which resulted in a contribution second to none in social work, is illustrated and exemplified in the production of this book. Dr. Taft lived positively, for and not against; for life richly and responsibly lived, for a belief in the wish and capacity of each to so live his own life, for defining and then using a psychology of help through human...
