by D Shapiro
After accurately reflecting with
a I was taught empathy;
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by D. Shapiro
SEEING, FEARING, FEELING “ABYSS”? Poems
5 Poems:
by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro
Under a football scoreboard, a weekly stretching of legs, waist high,
before and after jogging.
A shoe touches one scratched broken ½” scarred indent, of a steel pole.
No one knows our connection, and one day all that will be left is
A scarred indent that the sole no longer touches.
J: (2018) This poem about your sole on the pole is pretty poignant. Oh, sad! I wonder, will your pole miss your sole?:-)
by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro (10/22/18)
Brown pine needles , tree
Aging….five crows land on limbs…
Still provides respite
by D Shapiro
A child with a red dress, chases a pigeon, and bends to catch it.
A young man, no more than 30, puts his arm around his son and bends to hear the child’s words.
The man’s ear and arm are blistered with red scars.
by D. Shapiro (1970)
For a blue-eyed grandmother. This poem shares the pain of death and the fragility of life. There is also commentary by Johanna and later thoughts (2018) on using art to “cope” with life suffering.
by D Shapiro
3/8/18
Tears, fear, anger, No
control, helpless, what to do
Now…breathe, share, love, smile
by D Shapiro with comments by J Shapiro
One / Om / One
Is it ten years study
Or just siz years to wisdom…
So who is counting?!
(1987)
Deane H. Shapiro, Jr., Ph. D.
Client Asks “Who is in control?”: A Relational Vignette for teaching
Johanna’s comment: The questions at the end are excellent. It’s fine to keep my comment, it shows one way of responding to the situation. It’s an interesting scenario and certainly worth putting on your website.
Johanna’s comment: The value of this is seeing the step-by-step more behavioral approach to intervention after her negative experience with psychodynamic psychiatry, Also recommend putting this up. I value your honesty openness in your self-appraisal about how frustrated you were about not knowing how to motivate the client to face the abyss. No wonder! I thought the letter you wrote to her was superb, so empathic, encouraging. It showed you really cared about her and were thinking about her.