The young person with mental illness is like sleeping beauty, "asleep for 100 years" until the miracle of spontaneus recovery occurs.
In this book the author describes what life is like when a mother cares for a disabled child. What happens to family ties, and how she copes with taking care of all her duties as a mother, and as a professional curator.
An amazing story.
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"n the evening we socialized with Hans and Kiki who had invited us over for dinner a month in advance. As we related our experiences with family therapy, Hans expressed his wonder at the amount of passion and hatred we had developed toward our family therapist. Dr. Wong whenI related to her the manner in which the sessions were conducted stated: "Confrontation therapy is dangerous to use, the therapist must not have realized how sick you all were, how grief stricken."
Professional Reviews
Visceral and political
Sleeping beauty is a post-feminist manifesto which leapfrogs heady theory with visceral bone-chilling directness.
In the spirit of Albert Camus, Regine Dubono’s dilemmas are played out with fierce existential honesty and courage. Regine and Desiree are revealed as the "other" in an unspoken hierarchical caste system.
Guinea pigs of an Apollonian, corporate, institutionalized, hegemonic, bureaucratic, tyrannizing system. Yet here is represented a fight without rancor, a battle for self-defintion whose language creates new definfitions and models for co-existing. How can it be that in reading the inner thoughts of two women entwined in the most desperate of human circumstances, who bleed so heavily into their own pain that, like the cycles of the moon, we are transported directly in participation with the rythm of nature?. " Art gives meaning to life, especially music."
Regine’s fierce sense of injustice is spoken in the language of woman, artist, mother chemist, immigrant, lawyer, proleteriate and intelligentsia. Regine is able to mystically . fuse with the external world where everything is Art and Sacred. She invents a language of the body and the oppressed to communicate this knowledge as in the story entitled: "my daughter, myself." In her encounter with endless authoritarian figures:..ie. doctors, police, therapists, husband, supervisor, etc she always treats her tormentor with truth, dignity and compassion. Sleeping beauty opens to the heart of feminism, rousing language from its unconscious service to the prevailing social order. Regine Dubono simply communicates in transcendent, delightfully girlish, and archetyply feminine poetical prose.
This is the trade paperback edition of the mythopoeic paranormal novel recounting the attempts of one Danny Blue and his friends to come to terms with a series of unusual events in his life. A Kindle eBook edition is also available.
The Apple Tree Blossoms in The Fall, is the life journey of Carineh - a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, but most of all a woman of purpose. From stories of her parents held-up by bandits; the white donkey gifted by Khomeini; her father's death f
