{"product_id":"2940151586467","title":"From One to Another","description":"In the care of the mentally ill, science has come full circle and ended by officially rediscovering what many people have suspected all along – that the person who cares about another person, and is able to show that he cares, often in ways seemingly small in themselves, can give a kind of help in illness that drugs or surgery cannot give. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not to say that drugs or surgery are going out of fashion. On the contrary, in the treatment of mental illness especially there are hopes for drug therapy higher than have ever been held until now. But it is one thing to bring a sick person's illness under control by medical means and quite another to bring about his true recovery, which means his acceptance of himself once more as a healthy person and society's acceptance of him without which he cannot hold the gains he has made. \"Tender, loving care\" has been part of the healing armamentarium in children's hospitals for many years now. Today it is coming into its own in mental hospitals too – the last place, traditionally, into which the outside world was able to reach. The authors of a recent study made in Massachusetts speak of \"the changing climate of attitude surrounding mental illness from one of fear, repulsion and neglect, to one of acceptance, understanding and help.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sick person who suffers the special refinement of misery which mental illness brings has always been one for whom the Churches had a special care. Even in the last hundred years or so, when such sick people were for the most part shut away behind high walls and locked gates, and out of sight was all too often out of mind, there have been ministers of all faiths who have felt impelled to serve as chaplains in such hospitals, facing a day-by-day experience which continually drove home to them how little they were able to help. This is a far cry from the medieval Hotel-Dieu where nuns cared for all the sick as a sacred duty, but it still is an acknowledgment that the unfortunate have a claim on people who seek to practice their religion in the more difficult and thankless ways. The Quakers above all others in the past three hundred years have felt this responsibility laid upon them. What will the churches do, what in particular will the Quakers do, to meet the possibilities which the doctors are holding out to us now, possibilities of service going far beyond what has ever been open to us before?","brand":"Pendle Hill Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113001402608,"sku":"2940151586467","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940151586467_p0.jpg?v=1764013069","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940151586467","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}