Hello all,
In the current issue of the NY Review of Books, there is an article by
Oliver Sacks in which he reviews a book written by an autistic person. I
have excerpted the first paragraph, but I just noticed that you can get
the entire article at
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20010329004F
Jeff
P.S. And I'm swearing off any cynical attempts at humor from this point
on. Starting now, I never again will post a frivolous message! They all
will exhibit complete seriousness (or is it seriosity?).
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March 29, 2001
Leaving Nirvana
OLIVER SACKS
"In 1967, a remarkable book was published, The Siege, by Clara Claiborne
Park, an account of her daughter’s first eight years. It was remarkable
on several counts. It was the first “inside” (as opposed to clinical)
account of an autistic child’s development and life; and it was written
with an intelligence, a clearsightedness, an insight, and a love that
brought out to the full the absolute strangeness, the “otherness,” of
the autistic mind. It also brought out how much an empathetic
understanding could help to lay “siege” to autism’s seemingly
impregnable isolation.".......
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Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D. Office Phone: (480) 423-6213
9000 E. Chaparral Rd. FAX Number: (480) 423-6298
Psychology Department [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scottsdale Community College
Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626
"Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myths"
Karl Popper
Listowner: Psychologists Educating Students to Think Skeptically (PESTS)
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