Abstract
It is worthwhile looking in detail at the process of ‘helping people’. Especially the professionalized process from the Agony Aunts in women’s magazines to the whole industry of counselling and psychotherapy. I have chosen the title from Zen Buddhism and want to relate those processes to religious practice. How do we purvey to people that which is everywhere freely available. Selling water by the river. Everywhere there is naturally help and love, warmth and affection (as well as the opposites) and yet some make a living out of selling it. Paid Helpers.
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Brandon, D. (1987). Selling Water by the River. In: Karas, E. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6778-3_14
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