"… To Find and Maintain a Feeling of the Openness of the Future …"

Reviews the book, Supportive Care: Theory and Technique by Werner M. Mendel (see record 1975-30055-000). The author states two purposes: (1) To help beginning students in the clinical fields to care for the mentally ill patient, and (2) to help the senior practitioner provide supportive care. This is not an "ivory tower" book; it is a clinical "journeyman's" book, written by one very much at home with chronic patients. It should be helpful for one audience for which it was intended, beginning therapists in many fields. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)