Mira Rothenberg (1922–2015)
Auteur de Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls
Œuvres de Mira Rothenberg
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- ROTHENBERG, Mira
- Date de naissance
- 1922-01-15
- Date de décès
- 2015-04-16
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA (naturalized)
Lithuania (birth) - Lieu de naissance
- Vilnius, Lithuania
- Lieu du décès
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Études
- Brooklyn College
Columbia University
Yeshiva University - Professions
- Clinical Psychologist
child psychologist
Holocaust survivor
educator
author - Relations
- Goldsman, Akiva (son)
- Courte biographie
- Mira Rothenberg, née Kowarski, was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, the eldest of three children of Jacob Kowarski, a landlord, and Rose Joffe, a dentist. With the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, her mother and two younger siblings fled to the USA. She moved to New York City on her own in 1939, joining relatives there. Her father remained in Lithuania and died in the Holocaust. She studied education and psychology at Brooklyn College and Columbia University, and graduated with a master's degree in psychology from Yeshiva University. As a volunteer for a local synagogue, Ms. Rothenberg first encountered orphans who had been rescued from Nazi concentration camps in Europe. In 1953, she began teaching at the League School, an experimental private day school in Brooklyn founded by Carl Fenichel, an influential figure in treating emotionally disturbed children. Five years later, she and two fellow therapists, Zev Spanier and Tev Goldsman (whom she would marry), accompanied 11 child patients to a remote island in the Adirondacks for an immersive therapy program that she later described in her book The Children of Raquette Lake: One Summer That Helped Change the Course of Treatment for Autism (2012). Their experiences with the children inspired Rothenberg and Goldsman to open Blueberry Treatment Centers for autistic and schizophrenic children. A 1958 article about Ms. Rothenberg in Coronet magazine launched her and the new therapy into prominence and her writings helped alter public perceptions of mental illness in children. Ms. Rothenberg’s first book, Children with Emerald Eyes: Histories of Extraordinary Boys and Girls, published in 2003, included difficult stories of some of the children she helped care for.
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 60
- Popularité
- #277,520
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 8
- Favoris
- 1