Semrad treated mentally ill with respect as human beings
Click Here To Read: Thinking out loud: Semrad treated mentally ill with respect as human beings By Sal Giarratani on the Allston / Brighton TAB website on Feb 06, 2010.
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February 10th, 2010 at 6:56 am
I am co-author of the book: “Semrad: The Heart of a Therapist,” which was originally released in 1970, three years after Dr. Semrad’s untimely death. The book has been continuously in print since that time, and is still available! My memoir: “That’s How the Light Gets In: Memoir of a Psychiatrist” has an entire chapter devoted to my experience of learning from Dr. Semrad. The article by Sal Giarratani speaks from the heart about Dr. Elvin Semrad. Dr. Semrad was a most remarkable teacher of psychiatry and the most respectful and helpful clinician I have ever known. Like many of the best-trained psychiatrists in the United States, I was fortunate to do my residency training in Psychiatry at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and in my ongoing practice of psychiatry, I quote something that I learned from Dr. Semrad virtually every day. I miss him still.
March 7th, 2012 at 11:45 am
I knew Dr. Semrad personally and was in his home in Waban many, many times as his daughter, Rita (Henrietta) and I were very good friends in high school. Teddy was a year ahead of us at Newton High. We spent many a Christmas Day there enjoying the wonderful buffet. The last time I was at the house in Waban, Dr. Semrad had passed and I visited with his wife. My oldest boy, upong pulling up in front of the house, asked me how many apartments there wre in the building. On a oersonal note, do you have any information on how I could contact Rita. I have tried to find her over the years.