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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.928982
EAN num: 9781556434488
ISBN number: 1556434480
Label: North Atlantic Books
Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 312
Printing Date: January 06, 2003
Publishing house: North Atlantic Books
Release Date: January 06, 2003
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Mira Rothenberg pioneered both the clinical distinction and treatment protocol for autistic and severely disturbed children as separate from those for the mentally retarded. Winner of a Woman of the Year award from the New York City Chamber of Commerce and the National Organization for Mentally Ill Children, she eloquently recounts a lifetime of taking on seemingly hopeless cases and bringing these children, through painstaking therapy and love, back into the world. Unflinchingly honest, whether dealing with the raw pain of her patients' lives or with Rothenberg's own complex feelings for them, Children with Emerald Eyes explores the landscape of mental illness while never losing sight of the humanity within each patient.
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This book is a wonderful presentation of the trials and tribulations that occur when working with these populations. I have listed it as recommended reading for my students during their Autism lecture at a University in New York.
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Children with Emerald Eyes is eloquently written. I ordered two copies to share with other psychologists.
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Mira writes a very honest, emotionally captivating book. You will find yourself relating to Mira and her studies of these special children. I highly recommend this book.
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My feelings about this powerful book are quite mixed. On one hand, you have to have tremendous admiration for Mira, the author. She obviously cares extremely deeply for the children profiled here. She dedicates herself to them, working with them day and night and in some cases even taking them into her home. The world of special needs children needs people like her.
On the other hand, I was quite upset by this book. This mainly was probably a case of changing times, as this book was written about the 50s and 60s, when thoughts were quite different about autistic children. But it's still a popular book, and I fear people reading it might be influenced by it. Mira overtly or not in most every case blames the parents somehow for the extreme problems of their children. At the end of the book it is even revealed that this damage to the kids might somehow be done by telepathy! She also seems to have a theory that autism has much to do with a fear of death, and most of the behaviors we see are attempts by the children to ward off death. She twists their actions to fit this.
It would be impossible in today's world, with the explosion of autism, for children to get the intense treatment profiled here by anyone but their parents. However, after reading this, it makes you feel like for children such as this, getting away from their parents is the best thing---Mira seems to encourage children to see HER as the parent. As someone quite familiar with the world of autism, books like this leave me feeling very upset. If you are simply interested in a dramatic presentation of highly disturbed children, you will find that here. However, if you are the parent of an autistic child, you might want to think twice before reading this highly outdated book.
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Mira Rothenberg writes in an easy style, this is not a book full of clinical analysis. What does come through is the wonder of a life filled with caring and love of her patients - that care being as much of an influence on her techniques as her clinical training.
The stories are amazing, not all have a happy ending - but each gives an insight into the minds of the misunderstood, tortured souls Mira worked with. Such was her understanding, even the teenage ex-gangster mole's incarcerated in the children's prison, are shown to be truly innocent young girls, fighting to stay alive in an unforgiving and brutal world.
I very first read this book when I was 15yrs old, it remains one of my most treasured possessions.
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