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        • SUMI-E; Japanese Brush Stroke Drawing
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      • Songs for the Grandchildren
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      • Improv
      • Rock and Rock/Blues Music
      • Spiritual and folk songs
      • Johanna’s Music
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    • Nature of the Universe
      • Personal Reflections
      • Channels; Bull, No Bull
      • Religioius and Spiritual Paths. Co-exist?
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The Water is Wide

 
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Writings of DHS

NOTE: All writings on this website and all websites below are offered at no charge.

On this website will be found writings related to the following topics, both professional, creative and personal.

  • Meditation
  • Psychological Health
  • Relationships
  • The Dance of Control
  • Self-Control
    • Stress Management
  • Clinical Research and Teaching
  • Wisdom without Borders
  • Simple Wisdom
  • Consciousness, Self-identity
  • Values Class, Creativity in the Classroom
  • Jewish Material
  • Memoir/Journal
    • Travels: Israel, Japan, Bali, Soviet Union
  • Dreams
  • Zen
  • Creative Writing
    • Creative Writing Fiction and Non-fiction
    • Poems
      • Poetic A’Musing:
      • Poems For, About (and With!) Our Children
      • Nature Poems
      • Meditation, Inner and Outer
      • From Novel J’s
      • Poems on Existential Human Condition
      • Poems on Loss
      • Johanna Poems
      • Poems of Childhood Memoirs
    • Creation of the Artist
  • Creative Visual (Photography,drawings/paintings)
  • Music
    • Songs written for each grandchild when they were born (flute and lyrics)
    • Jewish Songs (Havana Shira)
    • Classical Music
    • Jazz/Blues
    • Playful songs
    • Improv
    • Rock and Rock/Blues
    • Spiritual and folk songs
    • Practice and Teachers
    • Johanna’s Music
  • Thought Pieces for the Educated Lay Person
  • Nature of the Universe
    • Personal Reflections
    • Channels; Bull, No Bull
    • Religious and Spiritual Paths. Co-exist?
  • Prof Miscellaneous
  • Kind Comments
  • Family: Of origin and created: Crossing the Bridge

For professional writings related to Control, Self-Control, and Control Therapy, please see the website controlresearch.net. In addition to those writings, there are grants available through the Control Research Foundation for research and teaching.

View Deane H Shapiro’s professional UCI Faculty Profile.

For Johanna Shapiro’s writings, please see:

  • Faculty profile
  • UCI program in Medical Humanities and the arts
  • A collection of her professional and creative writing: johannashapiro.org
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This site and the resources in it are free of charge, and supported by the Control Research Foundation Fund,
a fund of the Orange County Community Foundation.

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