"When a resident [physician in training] once asked him what helped build his capacity to help people bear intense feelings of loneliness and loss, he replied, "A life of sorrow, and the opportunity that some people gave me to overcome and deal with it.""
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Elvin Semrad
1909 – 1976
Elvin Semrad (1909-1976) was an American psychoanalytic psychiatrist.
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