CHILDREN WITH EMERALD EYES: Histories of Extraordinary Boys & Girls - Mira Rothenberg

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A profoundly moving, vivid, insightful and compassionate book

Children with Emerald Eyes is a classic book in the field of psychology, a powerful account of Mira Rothenberg's groundbreaking work with autistic and severely disturbed children. Rothenberg tells the stories of some of her most challenging patients, writing unflinchingly about the raw pain of their lives and her own complex feelings for them: a mixture of sadness, fear, admiration, and ultimately love. Through her portraits of these children, we are able to glimpse what she can see clearly - the humanity in each child that has been obscured by illness, but is there waiting for her outstretched hand.

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 writes here eloquently of a lifetime of taking on seemingly hopeless cases and bringing these children, through painstaking therapy and love, back into the world.

 "Children with Emerald Eyes" includes case histories ranging from incarcerated teenagers to a profoundly autistic six-year-old, told with the same power and sympathy Rothenberg used in her practice.