Into a Mirror and Through a Lens

by Greenleaf, Victoria C. G.

• ISBN13: 9781879384484
• ISBN10: 1879384485
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Cypress House

Summary

Victoria Greenleaf's poems encapsulate and preserve her experiences with her family as her children grow. No stranger to heartbreak, this mother records not only the tender and innocent experiences, but also the disappointments and sorrows, the tragedies and triumphs. A physician by profession (psychiatrist by specialty), she brings special training and expertise to her work. Earlier books relate her experiences with two of her sons' psychiatric conditions, antisocial personality disorder and adolescent alcoholism. This book is the third about the Greenleaf family, comprising, with the acclaimed a Handful of Ashes: One Mother's Tragedy and Fighting the Good Fight: One Family's Struggle Against Adolescent Alcoholism, a Greenleaf Triptych. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Victoria Greenleaf is a psychiatrist who writes poetry and an author who practices medicine. A native Midwesterner, Dr. Greenleaf graduated with highest honors from Michigan's Hope College, and received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University and her M.S. in psychiatry from the University of Michigan. While treating psychiatric patients, she has contributed to psychiatric journals, and serves on the Board of UMACC, an alcoholism and drug counseling service.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
To a Fetus	1	(2)
Section to Save a Child	3	(3)
A Small Boy's Bedtime	6	(1)
Spectacles	7	(2)
Winsome Oedipus	9	(1)
Little Shavers	10	(1)
Girl Child, Mid-Sixties	11	(3)
Tenure Track, Farewell	14	(2)
D's 3's	16	(1)
Childhood Chimeras	17	(1)
Child Midwife	18	(2)
A Child's Christmas in Ohio	20	(2)
Who Went Down With Alice?	22	(2)
Pruritis Ani	24	(1)
Family Trees	25	(1)
Angles of Reflection	26	(2)
Month-long Family Picnic	28	(3)
Dividing the Universe	31	(2)
G. I. O. W.:The Eagle	33	(2)
A Family's Homecoming: In New York Harbor	35	(4)
Double Helix	39	(2)
Caliban at Seventeen	41	(1)
Envious of a Dog	42	(1)
Runaway	43	(3)
The Scourge	46	(2)
Prom Night	48	(2)
Young, Gifted, and Sick	50	(1)
Intervention	51	(3)
Commencement	54	(2)
Gates of Academe: The Defense	56	(3)
Funeral Cortege	59	(1)
The Wheel Turns	60	(1)
Ode on a Grave Far from Home	61	(1)
Wedding of My Son	62	(2)
The Pencil	64	(1)
Birth Anniversaries	65	(4)
Avogadro's Number	69	(1)
Bequeathal	70	(1)
About Victoria Greenleaf	71	(2)
Credits and Awards	73