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.
DHS Writings
Faces of Soviet Jewry
by Shapiro, J. and Shapiro, D.H.
Faces of Soviet Jewry. Temple Beth El newsletter. l990.
Below is material from our Mission to the Soviet Union sponsored by our Temple, Beth El, to meet with “Jewish Refuseniks” during 1989, a time of “glasnost” openness. The material below shares the Faces of Soviet Jews with whom we met (1); offers a pictorial essay (2); includes the suggestions we made to the Los Angeles and Orange Country Commission on Soviet Jewry (3); and ends with our personal reflections on the trip, then, and during the Days of Awe, 2017 (4).
- Refuseniks we met
- Faces of Soviet Jewry–A Pictorial Essay
- Mission to the Soviet Union on Behalf of Russian Jewry – July 18, 1989
- Our personal reflections on the trip
In 1991, two years after our visit, the USSR was disbanded into its constituent republics. We joke that maybe we had some small part in that! 🙂
We were invited to share this information with Wende Museum of the Cold War, Culver City, CA by Michael Balot-Garza Head of Education, Wende Museum of the Cold War. We are so happy you found the information we shared on our websites about our experiences with Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, just months before its collapse. We would be happy for you to share that information, and if you feel it would be helpful, to add he information from the website to your archive.
An Imperfect Eulogy
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.
PETE’S PASSING
by D Shapiro
3/8/18
Tears, fear, anger, No
control, helpless, what to do
Now…breathe, share, love, smile
The Journey, (poems at different life stages) 1987-2018
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)
Conjoint Family Therapy: Father, Mother, Daughter
The material below describes work with a family (Father, mother teen age daughter) seen at Webster Center. The presenting concern was “an unmanageable out of control daughter. As the father noted, “We had reached a spot with our daughter when we were threatening juvenile hall and other drastic measures.”
AH, TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM…..
by D Shapiro
When I was 16 my mom gave me a journal to write my dreams in. So a dream journal was started. The notes were hand written daily, when I remembered. Then in graduate school, I began to study different ways of interpreting dreams, and I became more serious, beginning each morning with writing the dreams from the previous night (and keeping a note pad so when I woke up after as many REM sleeps as possible I would jot down some notes . In 1999 (after 36 years of hand written notes, I switched to typing the notes each morning. In the last 19 years I’ve accumulated over 1200 pages single spaced!:)—dreams and commentary. I began keeping a table of contents trying to organize types of dreams: e.g. eros and Thanatos; bridge building; parts of self; control and loss of control ; family of origin, created family, belonging; me as observer, self-reflection; relationship to society; creativity (music, art—which I could never do, or at least have never done in waking life!); different parts of self….
This section is one I hope to get to (only limitation is mortality—written at 71.5!) and other projects that currently have priority. The impetus for this entry was a dream of our two girls, at 6 and 8, which I found in the “poetry” section. I guess I thought I could make a poem out of it. Johanna suggested it might be good to put it in the “dream” journal section of the website—a section which I hadn’t even envisioned, much less begun. So, today, Dec 7, 2018, I begin it.
Since I certainly have made every effort in life to be self-aware and reflective of my waking life, it seems reasonable to try to do the same with my “dream life.” 🙂
Psychological Health
by Shapiro, DH, Santerre, C, .Shapiro, SL, Astin, JA, Shapiro, JD, Huston, JA
(2010) Psychological Health. in The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology. Fourth Edition, Vol 3, I. Weiner & W. E. Craighead (Eds.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1323-1325
by Shapiro, DH, Santerre, C, .Shapiro, SL, Astin, JA
(2004) Psychological Health. in Craighead, W.E.& Nemeroff, CB (Eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. 3rd Edition.,pp 747-749 (abridged version)
by Shapiro, DH, Santerre, C, .Shapiro, SL, Astin, JA
(2001) Psychological Health. in Craighead, W.E.& Nemeroff, CB (Eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. 3rd Edition.
by Deane H. Shapiro, Jr., Ph.D.
(1987) Psychological Health. In Corsini, R. (ed) Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York: Wiley, Vol. 3, 99-101, 1984. *Abridged version (1987) 889-890. 2nd Edition, 1994.
by Shapiro, DH, Santerre, C, .Shapiro, SL, Astin, JA
(1984) Psychological Health. in Craighead, W.E.& Nemeroff, CB (Eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Neuroscience. The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science.
Death Haiku
by D Shapiro
Wondering…. What is
The last line of my haiku?
Grateful…. …..breathing
^
still
He was a Kite Dressed as a Crane
by D. Shapiro
He was a kite dressed in cranes and pulled back by those dancing on the bridge. The yellow lanterns strung along the riverbank were blown by the wind which was trying to make him soar.