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Title: CLOSE TO THE BONE: LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING by Jean Shinoda Bolen ISBN: 0-684-83530-4 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not what I expected...
Comment: This book is poorly written and not worth the money. Too much time spent on vague ideals and notions of death and dying not enough substance. Dr. Bolen spends very little time sharing the actual patient's stories and too much time on the New Age doctrine she so voraciously clings to. A New Age sermon is what this book is, not a search for meaning during life-threatening illness.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Right Book at the Right Time
Comment: This book is unlike any other I have read. The author is a Jungian analyst and clinical professor of psychiatry. To quote the book jacket, she "weaves myth, experience, and story to produce a book which at once illuminates the experience of the seriously ill patient and shows that facing one's mortality can be a life-transforming, and even a life-saving process". At a time when I was recovering from life-threatening illness myself, I heard the author speak at a lecture in Vancouver, and I found her use of classical myth as an allegory for illness to be quite effective. My friend Russell borrowed this book from me a few weeks before he died from cancer, and in a written note he described it as "the right book at the right time".
Rating: 5
Summary: Accepting the challenge of the joy of living
Comment: As a businesswoman seeking to ensure that the daily demands of running a successful organization do not impede my ability to live a life of integrity, I seek to read books that inspire me to find joy in daily living. As I read this book, I was in awe of the stories of the survivors who have found life that much more as a result of their experiences in dealing with terminal illness. I applaud Dr. Bolen's wisdom in sharing the challenges that make a healthy person realize how weak we are in comparison to these heroes who live so richly in spite of events. I found the book a great joy and, in fact, am reading it again - just in case I missed something the first time. I am positioning myself to "recreate" myself in a 2nd career and this book inspired me to think of using my skills in some way to assist women who find themselves dealing with their own terminal illness or the illness of a loved one.
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Title: Goddesses in Older Women: Archetypes in Women Over Fifty by Jean Shinoda Bolen ISBN: 0060929235 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Bolen, M.D. Shinoda ISBN: 1573249122 Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Pilgrimage by Jean Shinoda Bolen ISBN: 0062502727 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Tao of Psychology : Synchronicity and Self by Jean Shinoda Bolen ISBN: 0062500813 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 June, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Goddesses in Everywoman: A New Psychology of Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen ISBN: 006091291X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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