Lee Scheingold's rich, painful personal journey-following the death
of her husband, famed political scientist Stuart Scheingold-is
described from the points of view which have informed her life:
psychoanalysis, clinical social work, Buddhist meditation, and
family medicine. Poetry is the connecting thread, beginning with
the Russian poems she studied long ago in college, and then to a
variety of contemporary American and English verse. This is an
emotional and intellectual account of profound grief from a
professional psychotherapist who has approached her recent life
with continual introspection and self-reflection. She explores the
experiences which enabled her to tolerate and even welcome the
feelings of grief. She examines, with the issue of meaning at
center stage, her psychoanalyses and a ten-year practice of
Buddhism. In this journey, her reading of poetry links emotions to
ideas. The deeply evocative style of the book resembles poetry
itself. "A wonderful balance of psychoanalytic awareness and poetic
sensitivity, an open and revealing memoir of the experience of loss
and grief. It took me to another level in reading poetry-looking
for and cherishing ambiguity and space. This is the story of how
poetry (and Buddhism and psychoanalysis) helps one to come to grips
with, or perhaps adapt to or even conquer loss. Best read with the
heart." - Fred Heidrich, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor of Family
Medicine, University of Washington "In One Silken Thread,
Scheingold weaves together threads from Buddhism, Psychoanalysis,
and Lyric Poetry through the process of her own grief to illuminate
the possibility of what she calls 'the heart of the world'-that
which runs deep and connects us all at the level of our feelings.
She tells us that she doesn't write poetry. But this book is
lyrical in itself. It is a courageous
self-reflection-simultaneously heart rending and affirming of the
meaning and beauty possible from a life of caring deeply." - Ritch
Addison, PhD, Clinical Professor, UCSF Department of Family and
Community Medicine; Behavioral Medicine Director, Santa Rosa Family
Medicine Residency; Coeditor, Entering the Circle: Hermeneutic
Investigations in Psychology "Lee Scheingold has done something
extraordinary, linking the truly academic with the truly personal
in a way that is neither forced and pedantic nor nostalgic and
cloying... It is, in short, real. It's what an academic does when
searching for the light... Somehow, these writings are often too
dry, dead, literary, searching for light and staying away from it
and its warmth, because both are suspect. The other side is the
very personal, about loss, emptiness, hurt, and pain told in a very
personal way, but without the distance, separation and
understanding that literature and intellect bring to the quest.
Scheingold has merged and fully integrated both. This book is VERY
brave and very well done." - Mark Greenside, Professor of English,
History, and Political Science, Merritt College (Cal.); Author,
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do)
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