Making Life Better
By Elwood Worcester
Craige Foundation Boston Mass 1933

hardbound
no dustcover

An Application of Religion and Psychology to Human Problems

Scribner's and sons NY NY 1933

Preface
From time to time a great many persons both of the clergy and laity have asked me to prepare a small book simpler and expressed in less scientific terms than Religion and Medicine, or Body Mind and Spirit, which should thro light on some of our inner conflicts and affords solutions to some of the problems of our existence

Chapters Include

Christianity and an Iron Age
Reality of the Spiritual World
Might Works of Jesus
Gospel of a Saviors Love
Religion of the Spirit and of the Power
Great sublimations: God Work Love
Fear: Apprehensions and psychic fears
Reconciliation
Directing our Thoughts
On Living on a Low Tension
Prayer
The World We Make
Preventive work for the young
Death and Life After Death: Birth and death & Psychic Research

The importance of the Emmanuel Movement is the introduction of lay therapy, that is treatment by laymen, just as AA is made up of alcoholics helping alcoholics. Some of the success stories from the movement included Courtenay Baylor who, as a recovering alcoholic, began working with Worchester in 1912. He may have been the first lay therapist. Another success was Richard Peabody, the author of Common Sense of Drinking. Peabody was treated by Baylor.