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The Children of Raquette Lake

One Summer That Helped Change the Course of Treatment for Autism

By: Mira Rothenberg

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The Children of Raquette Lake

One Summer That Helped Change the Course of Treatment for Autism

By: Mira Rothenberg

The Children of Raquette Lake: One Summer That Helped Change the Course of Treatment for Autism is an inspiring account of author Mira Rothenberg's experience with eleven autistic and schizophrenic children during the summer of 1958. In order to avoid the regression that often occurred during the summer months, Rothenberg, a trained psychologist, and her colleagues Zev Spanier and Tev Goldsman, decided to bring their young patients to a camp in Raquette Lake, located in the Adirondack region of Northern New York. As Rothenberg explains, this was a time when severely disturbed children were considered untreatable and often sent to live out their lives in institutions where their needs were neglected and ignored. Many of Rothenberg's patients exhibited signs of abuse and emotional trauma. On the island, Rothenberg, Spanier, and Goldsman discovered that by applying what was then an unconventional treatment of loving care and tolerance, their young patients improved and were able to heal many of the emotional and physical issues associated with their conditions. Written like a narrative journal that follows the children's progress from week to week, The Children of Raquette Lake is interwoven with personal histories and fascinating case stories that demonstrate the healing power of the human heart. The book also provides a valuable list of resources for therapists and parents of autistic children.

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North Atlantic Books

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1583945059

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9781583945056

Children with Emerald Eyes

Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls

By: Mira Rothenberg

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Children with Emerald Eyes

Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls

By: Mira Rothenberg

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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North Atlantic Books

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1556434480

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9781556434488

The Children of Raquette Lake

One Summer That Helped Change the Course of Treatment for Autism

By: Mira Rothenberg

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One Summer That Helped Change the Course of Treatment for Autism

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Children with Emerald Eyes

Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls

By: Mira Rothenberg

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Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls

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Wet

On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

By: Mira Schor

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On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture

By: Mira Schor

Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and feminist art. Writing from her dual perspective of a practicing painter and art critic, Schor's writing has been widely read over the past fifteen years in Artforum, Art Journal, Heresies, and M/E/A/N/I/N/G, a journal she coedited. Collected here, these essays challenge established hierarchies of the art world of the 1980s and 1990s and document the intellectual and artistic development that have marked Schor's own progress as a critic. Bridging the gap between art practice, artwork, and critical theory, Wet includes some of Schor's most influential essays that have made a significant contribution to debates over essentialism. Articles range from discussions of contemporary women artists Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and the Guerrilla Girls, to "Figure/Ground," an examination of utopian modernism's fear of the "goo" of painting and femininity. From the provocative "Representations of the Penis," which suggests novel readings of familiar images of masculinity and introduces new ones, to "Appropriated Sexuality," a trenchant analysis of David Salle's depiction of women, Wet is a fascinating and informative collection. Complemented by over twenty illustrations, the essays in Wet reveal Schor's remarkable ability to see and to make others see art in a radically new light.

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Duke University Press

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0822319152

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9780822319153

A Decade of Negative Thinking

Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life

By: Mira Schor

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A Decade of Negative Thinking

Essays on Art, Politics, and Daily Life

By: Mira Schor

A Decade of Negative Thinking brings together writings on contemporary art and culture by the painter and feminist art theorist Mira Schor. Mixing theory and practice, the personal and the political, she tackles questions about the place of feminism in art and political discourse, the aesthetics and values of contemporary painting, and the influence of the market on the creation of art. Schor writes across disciplines and is committed to the fluid interrelationship between a formalist aesthetic, a literary sensibility, and a strongly political viewpoint. Her critical views are expressed with poetry and humor in the accessible language that has been her hallmark, and her perspective is informed by her dual practice as a painter and writer and by her experience as a teacher of art. In essays such as “The ism that dare not speak its name,” “Generation 2.5,” “Like a Veneer,” “Modest Painting,” “Blurring Richter,” and “Trite Tropes, Clichés, or the Persistence of Styles,” Schor considers how artists relate to and represent the past and how the art market influences their choices: whether or not to disavow a social movement, to explicitly compare their work to that of a canonical artist, or to take up an exhausted style. She places her writings in the rich transitory space between the near past and the “nextmodern.” Witty, brave, rigorous, and heartfelt, Schor’s essays are impassioned reflections on art, politics, and criticism.

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Duke University Press

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0822391414

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9780822391418

An Open World

How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order

By: Rebecca Lissner,Mira Rapp-Hooper

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An Open World

How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order

By: Rebecca Lissner,Mira Rapp-Hooper

Two foreign policy experts chart a new American grand strategy to meet the greatest geopolitical challenges of the coming decade This ambitious and incisive book presents a new vision for American foreign policy and international order at a time of historic upheaval. The United States’ global leadership crisis is not a passing shock created by the Trump presidency or COVID-19, but the product of forces that will endure for decades. Amidst political polarization, technological transformation, and major global power shifts, Lissner and Rapp-Hooper convincingly argue, only a grand strategy of openness can protect American security and prosperity despite diminished national strength. Disciplined and forward-looking, an openness strategy would counter authoritarian competitors by preventing the emergence of closed spheres of influence, maintaining access to the global commons, supporting democracies without promoting regime change, and preserving economic interdependence. The authors provide a roadmap for the next president, who must rebuild strength at home while preparing for novel forms of international competition. Lucid, trenchant, and practical, An Open World is an essential guide to the future of geopolitics.

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Yale University Press

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0300256140

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9780300256147

Children with Emerald Eyes

Histories of Extraordinary Boys & Girls

By: Mira Rothenberg

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Children with Emerald Eyes

Histories of Extraordinary Boys & Girls

By: Mira Rothenberg

A respected therapist who works with autistic, schizophrenic, and other deeply disturbed children recounts some of her most dramatic cases

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0525482865

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The Children of Raquette Lake

The Children of Raquette Lake

Children with Emerald Eyes

Children with Emerald Eyes

The Children of Raquette Lake

The Children of Raquette Lake

Children with Emerald Eyes

Children with Emerald Eyes

Wet

Wet

A Decade of Negative Thinking

A Decade of Negative Thinking

An Open World

An Open World

Children with Emerald Eyes

Children with Emerald Eyes

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