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(b) The Tragic Love of Two Enemies.

19 (b) They Loved Each Other Even to Extreme Old Age.

11 (b) and (c) A samurai Becomes a Beggar Through His Love

For a Page.

12 (b) An Actor Loved His Patron, Even as a Flint Seller.

13 (b) He Rids Himself of His Foes With the Help of

His Lover.

14 (b) Love Long Concealed.

15 Gengobei the Mountain of Love. (To Be Continued Next Month)

Something is being done for youthful offenders at the

BRANSON FOUNDATION

Family Surrogate Counseling Research and Rehabilitation

By Helen Kitchen Branson, M. A.

As a sociologist with a nursing background, I look back on the last ten years and realize that like Topsy in UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, our research and rehabilitation program has "just growed." It began, really, when a psychiatrist who operated a small private sanitarium, because of the shortage of nurses, hired me in spite of my visual handicap, to be his night charge nurse. The majority of his patients were psychotics, but a few character disorders were treated. His interest was with the acutely disturbed patients, and he was eagerly welcoming any assistance from the nursing staff with the individuals having character disorders. At his suggestion, I took into my home two patients with whom I had unusual rapport. In the family setting, and, of course, under the psychiatrist's guidance, the rehabilitation program began.

From two clients to several hundred a year, our program has grown. It has formed a part of our graduate research at the University of Southern California where the sociology department befriended us in spite of our lack of sight. As both my husband and I progressed in our work, we realized that the chief problem was not rehabilitation, but research. Little or nothing is known in the character disorder field. Research has been scattered, and frequently inadequately handled. In an attempt to combine research and rehabilitation, we expanded our residence projects and kept careful records of everyone who came and went. The family atmosphere has been maintained throughout, and the counseling has been voluntary and not a requirement for residence. mattachine REVIEW

Non-resident counselees have also been seen, and their records, too, have furnished grist for the research projects.

Private endowment capital is needed to sponsor the longitudinal study which will include offenders, their wives, their mothers, and their children. Three main phases will be undertaken in the research-sexual psychopathy; narcotic addiction; alcoholism. Workers will include specialists in the field of child guidance, sociology, psychology, sociometry, family counseling, and medical sociology. One of the major sections, of the research will be concerned with a twenty year study of children in homes where one or both parents suffer from a compulsive emotional disorder.

The securing of private endowment funds requires the establishing of the research integrity of an organization. Branson Foundation, Inc., has existed but one year, although its private research projects have been underway for ten years. Recent regulations condemned the building in which the residence project was conducted. This has been discontinued until other quarters can be obtained. The clinic, however, continues to operate. But it must be enlarged before a major research project can be undertaken.

Two months ago this ambitious project seemed but a dream to come true some five or ten years from now. That was when $150,000 seemed the only figure within reason to obtain the needed facilities. Then $25,000 was agreed upon, and this, too, was a staggering goal for an unknown private charity, barely able to support itself from gifts, fees, memberships, and board and room payments of clients.

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Then came the day when the owner of the property agreed on a rental program. The goal came down to $7,200 for capital funds. Pledge's came in for money beyond this basic goal. But the original $7,200 is still in the process of being accrued. Less than $10,000 stands in the way of a major research into the origin and development of these vital problems! When the facilities have been set up and in operation for six months, sufficient funds are available to conduct the work." No gift is too large or too small for Branson Foundation. If you be lieve that the young offender can be helped, and that compulsive problems are made, not born, you believe in the hope for youth which is the theme of Branson Foundation. To assist these young people, we must have facilities to provide the emotional learning processes in a substitute family atmosphere. The young offender has many opportunities to bring his problem under control. The older offender frequently' finds counseling helpful because he can come to an understanding of himself and resolve the inner conflict as to which life pattern is best suited to his situation. But we can not carry on this work without

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