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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85882
EAN num: 9780553382327
ISBN number: 0553382322
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: March 01, 2005
Publishing house: Bantam
Release Date: March 01, 2005
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A remarkable testament of hope and love, these pages recount Howard Buten’s lifelong journey working with autistic children. For three decades his pioneering, often controversial approaches have enabled him to gain acess to their strange and
solitary universe—a universe he shares in a book that is unlike any you’ve ever read.
From his very first unforgettable encounter with a wild, clawing human hurricane in the form of a little boy named Adam S., clinical psychologist Howard Buten has sought ways into the seemingly closed world of the autistic child. Whether he’s done this by
letting himself be pummeled, scratched, and bitten, or by imitating the child’s behaviors, or by feeling himself into what the child must be feeling, he has often been
rewarded. With extraordinary insight and in ways that are powerfully moving, he brings to life as never before the innermost selves of these children.
Among those you’ll meet in the clinic he founded in Paris are Lise, whose seemingly random movements are as expressive as a dancer’s; Florian, who can instantly tell
you on which day of the week your birthday falls for any year, past or future; Martin, whose nonstop speech echoes the angry voices he has heard all around him, but who is impervious to the emotions they contain; and Hakim, a child so lost and so violent, no other institution will take him.
Writing with a scientist’s clarity and a humanist’s heart, Buten conveys the reality of autism with passion, ruthlessness, humor, wisdom—and love. This is a book both heartbreaking and hopeful, and when he succeeds in breaching the invisible wall of aloneness that seems to separate the autistic from the rest of us, we cheer.
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Wow. What a range of emotions this book produced in me. At least once my mouth fell open in shock. Several times I burst out laughing and also unexpectably burst into tears. OK, I'm emotional. I thoroughly enjoyed the stories of Dr.Buten's patients and feel he must be a very intelligent, compassionate, insightfull and slightly off beat person.
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