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Moreover, as service providers, charities are often on the front lines combating the worst problems besetting our communities.
Although its philosophy has been taken over by the field of psychiatry (in which I include psychoanalysis), the idea of shriving oneself of fears and other besetting difficulties has its roots--as far as Western culture is concerned--in the confessional, though it seems likely that reflexes of that procedure could be discovered in profound Eastern religions if not in shamanistic practices.
If readers would (or would not) enjoy the inclusion of occasional extracts from such sources, many of which demonstrate that the concerns of people interested in language more than a century ago were often the same as those besetting us today, they should please let the Editor know their wishes.