Narrow Bridge

"e;One of the most important and least attended-to mysteries in the treatmentof mental illness is the need for a delicate, careful and thoughtful study andseparation between the symptoms of illness and the search for God. There s adifference between visions and hallucinations which very few psychiatrists andpsychotherapists understand and support even now. A Narrow Bridge is theonly first-person memoir I ve read to touch on and reveal these differences and toattempt to explain them. It is a well-thought-out, honest and penetrating memoir. This is one of the things that makes Bronstein s work a vital contribution to thefirst-person literature on this deep subject. Joanne Greenberg,author of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden This is a raw, heart rendering and, in the end, victorious book. Bontshe Sveig (inYiddish literature) could not cry out. But Rabbi Deborah Bronstein could. And we canhear her. And we hear her now. And we will hear her Ad Olam; to the end of time. Dvorah Telushkin,author of Master of Dreams This extraordinary book is a gift to anyone who has been touched first or secondhandby mental illness. With remarkable courage, candor, and compassion,Rabbi Bronstein shares her personal story and, in the process, illuminates theinner experience of mental illness and the inner world of the psychiatric hospital. Depression, despair, shame, rage, and self-loathing are depicted in all of theirdarkness. And yet, Bronstein insists, truth is sometimes hidden in dark places. . .and goodness too. This is ultimately an inspirational book, a testament to thepower of the human spirit to move from great brokenness to greater wholenessand healing. Ken Pargament,author of Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy:Understanding and Addressing the Sacred