(Paperback)

Rothenberg recounts her work as a child psychologist and presents the stories of severely disturbed children, viewed as untreatable by their families and others, who, through painstaking therapy, make substantial progress towards normalcy.

(Paperback)

"Written for therapists and those whose lives have been touched by autism, this book by Mira Rothenberg, a psychotherapist who changed the face of treatment for autism in the 1950s, provides a personal account of the summer of 1958, when she and two colleagues successfully treated twelve severely disturbed children on an island in upstate New York."--Provided by publisher"