num_pages: 321
description: Professor Lightfoot candidly conveys the strength, endurance, and reliance upon a supportive family that pushed a Black woman, the author's mother, on to become a distinguished child psychoanalist in the face of racism, sexism, and poverty
language: English
title: Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer
titlecomplete: Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Healer (Radcliffe Biography Series)
genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, History
ratings_count: 97
publisher: Addison-Wesley