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Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by Mary Pipher

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Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look... (read more)
 
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison

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by Virginia M Axeline

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"The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published."<BR>NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D.<BR>Professor of Psychiatry<BR>Yale... (read more)
 
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Art Therapy

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by Howard Gardner

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Psychologists have long understood that the art works of children relate to their intellectual and emotional development but this is the first book to describe the developmental process of drawing. Gardner explores the vital links between children’... (read more)
 
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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant (07 Edition)
by Daniel Tammet

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One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... (read more)
 
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Drama of the Gifted Child (Rev 97 Edition)
by Alice Miller

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Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided thousands of readers with an answer—and has helped them to apply it to their own lives.Far too many of us had to... (read more)
 
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and
by Bruce Perry

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Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Here he tells their stories of trauma and transformation.... (read more)
 
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and... (read more)
 
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All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome
by Kathy Hoopmann

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At first, this book appears to be a cat lover's gift book; however, it is a delightful, clever book about the many ways that children with AS and cats are alike. The author does a great job relating useful information to readers of all ages in the... (read more)
 
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by Mary Bray Pipher

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by Echo Fling

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At the age of ten, Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Written in the first person, this book tells Jimmy's story from his mother's point of view. As well as charting Jiimmy's development from infancy to preadolescence, Fling provides practical... (read more)
 
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Touchpoints: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
by T Berry Brazelton

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Based on over three decades of continuous practice and internationally recognized research, Touchpoints is the only childcare reference by a pediatrician who has both medical and psychoanalytic training, and who offers parents a complete understanding of... (read more)
 
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The Transgender Child Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals a Handbook for Families and Professionals
by Stephanie Brill

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This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in... (read more)
 
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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
by Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D. Dan Kindlon

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In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a... (read more)
 
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Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
by William Pollack

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Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference. With author appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20 /20 and NPR's Fresh Air, and featuring articles in Newsweek, Time, and The New York Times, Real Boys is one of... (read more)
 
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Magic Years (59 Edition)
by Selma Fraiberg

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To a small child, the world is an exciting but sometimes frightening and unstable place. In The Magic Years, Selma Fraiberg takes the reader into the mind of the child, showing how he confronts the world and learns to cope with it. With great warmth and... (read more)
 
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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
by Leonard, M.d. Sax

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Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from the truth. Fully one... (read more)
 
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