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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

Some seven and a half years later, Jane had been hospitalized for over ten months. We worked together during most of those days of treatment; by then, also, she had carried nearly to the limit her exploration of both her personal life and her “psychological ‘art’ “ of living. She very creatively considered those journeys and her new goals in the untitled poem that she spontaneously dictated to me from her hospital bed on March 1, 1984. It took her just seven minutes, spanning as it did two interruptions by nursing personnel,

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 11 Cunningham Miss starlings killing Rah

[...] “We had to take her to a nursing home. [...] She upset the whole floor, ran screaming up and down the halls, threw dishes at the nurses and was completely irrational.”

Miss Cunningham stayed in the nursing home for a short time when the family was notified again that she was unmanagable, and that other arrangements would have to be made. [...]