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A Walk from the Sea

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph.D.

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This is a collection of poems written by Dr. Lancer over many years. The topics are varied. There are chapters about nature, people, one on the golden years, one about fairy folk, and there are two chapters devoted to poems for children. These Dr. Lancer wrote when she was teaching poetry writing to the gifted and talented students and, later, students in grades 3 through 5 with interest in creative writing. There is one chapter devoted to copying the format and rhyming styles of famous poets. The rewrites are often of different topics than the original but more updated and often humorous. Dr. Lancer is also a painter and has included a painting with an accompanying poem to head each chapter.

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Trafford Publishing

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1490722343

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9781490722344

Just for the Summer

Memoirs from a Mental Hospital

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph. D.

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Just for the Summer

Memoirs from a Mental Hospital

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph. D.

Laurel's disturbing and abusive childhood, followed by a poor marriage, resulted in a month-long visit to a mental hospital, where in the 1960s, the use of electroshock and insulin shock therapy was prevalent. With humor and pathos, Laurel poignantly describes her insulin and shock treatments, the insensitivity of the hospital staff, and the numerous psychiatric problems of various patients. The author, now a PhD. in psychology, relates her memoirs with insight and compassion. In addition to the mistreatment of mental patients in the 50s and 60s, the accounts of various psychiatric disturbances will be of particular interest to students of human nature. Similar to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Laurel's story of her thirty days of treatment provides an expose of the pitifully inadequate treatment for mental health issues at that time.

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270

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iUniverse

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0595485367

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9780595485369

We Shan't Get Home Tonight

Our Failing Education System

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph.D.

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We Shan't Get Home Tonight

Our Failing Education System

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph.D.

Dr. Lancer uses an old folk tale “The Old Woman and Her Pig” as a metaphor for telling the numerous things that go wrong in the education system. The old woman (teachers) cannot get the Piggy (students) over the stile (the curriculum)t and so, “We shan’t Get Home Tonight” is the book title. She explains the deficits in people and organisations in education, starting with kids, teachers, principals, and on up through the ranks and ending with U.S. Dept. of Education. All of the characters in the education system are likened to characters and entities in the old folk tale. She gives what would have been a solution to our problems by having more involvement in the system and then gives an ending telling of the societal changes that make the simpler “more involvement” invalid. We have a very complicated problem involving: immigration, over concern with tests, political correctness, gender problems, etc. that are new to education.

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132

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Trafford Publishing

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1490790780

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9781490790787

Where Fairies Are

Poem and Paintings

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph.D.

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Where Fairies Are

Poem and Paintings

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph.D.

The poem in this book was written by me, and the artwork is also mine. I paint with the signature "Spute," which was my maiden name. My artwork can be seen on the website www.sputefineart.com. The paintings in this book are mostly mixed media (oil, acrylic, and ink). Titles of other books by this author: "Just for the Summer" (a hospital memoir) "Love Is in This Room"(a memoir of teaching special kids) "A Walk from the Sea" (a collection of poetry and paintings)

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1490754717

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Just for the Summer

Memoirs from a Mental Hospital

By: Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph. D.

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Book's by Laurel Lorraine Lancer Ph. D.

A Walk from the Sea

A Walk from the Sea

Just for the Summer

Just for the Summer

We Shan't Get Home Tonight

We Shan't Get Home Tonight

Where Fairies Are

Where Fairies Are

Just for the Summer

Just for the Summer

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