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The article focuses on the self-help training, programs, and activities at the Erhard Seminars Training Inc. (EST). It states that EST was founded by Werner Erhard and aims to transform human's ability to experience life through various techniques drawn from Scientology, psychoanalysis, and transactional analysis. It mentions that the self-help programs in EST runs 70 hours in two weekends which was graduated by 83, 000 people since 1971. It relates the experiences and observation of "Time" behavior writer John Leo at EST. It explores the activities they had undergone which include, experiencing the life of the people whom they never met, and troubling with anger and loneliness. It adds that most of the thoughts in the EST were assumed from Zen Buddhism.

The article focuses on the launch of the Operation Second Life program for war widows, by U.S. Lieutenant Commander Leonard Zunin. The program is formed with the idea that the best help for widows can come from other widows. Most of the widows who participated in the group sessions agree with Zunin that the bereaved can relieve their grief by expressing it openly.

The article reports on the self-help program developed by realtor Fred Harris of Beverly Hills, California in connection with the American Cancer Society Inc. in Los Angeles, California. Harris states that he could do something to help relieve the isolation that cancer inflicts to its victims. It notes that program concentrates on patients whose cancer probably can not be cured. Meanwhile, volunteers undergo training from physicians and psychiatrists who evaluate their emotional fitness.

The article focuses on the self-help unit, the new intermediate ward in Boston Veterans Administration (VA) Hospital. It notes that the ward is a place for patients who no longer in need of all the nursing and housekeeping services, elderly patients like Earl Perry with primary cardiopathy but can wear street clothes if he likes, makes his own bed and keeps his room tidy. It says that the new system also let other VA hospitals to assign more registered nurses to tend to seriously ill patients.