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.
- ISBN10 0285648586
- ISBN13 9780285648586
- Publish Date 18 May 1978
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 10 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Profile Books Ltd
- Imprint Souvenir Press Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English