Word: reisz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Life Raft in all of the Network offices as well as at the offices of Harvard's other counseling groups, such as Room 13 and Response. Bunn has written letters to senior tutors to tell them about the program and The Harvard Gazette announces the meetings each week. Reisz says, however, that "you can never publicize enough...
There is a distinction between a self-help group like Life Raft and psychotherapy, Reisz explains. "Discussion comes out of what people have been experiencing that week. They come in wanting to talk. Sometimes they simply want to be there...
Life Raft participants with varied problems have different needs. Reisz, who has been to a few meetings, describes how, when people suffer a death in the family, "they feel that people are avoiding them. It is important to be with other people, but [especially] people who are caring and sensitive...
Those with terminal illnesses have particular problems and needs that the group can address, Reisz says. For them, "it is important to be reassured again that you are a person with some worth and to be honest about the disease you are suffering with and learn to integrate it into your life," he says...
...Reisz says the meetings "provide a cove in the midst of the stream of life where people can pull into and have a restful place to gain perspective with others who are also going through turmoil. It is a place of healing...