Lisa and David/Jordi: Two Extraordinary Tales of Troubled Children Struggling to Find Their Places in the Real World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

RUBIN, THEODORE ISAAC

Mental Health

Collier Books

Lisa Brent and David Green, mentally-disturbed teenagers, find a path towards recovery through their mutual love, and years later, rely on their maturing relationship to face life's problems

Lisa and David Today: Their Healing Journey from Childhood and Pain into Love and Life

Literature & Fiction

United States

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Based on his medical training and counseling experience, a leading psychiatrist offers a practical approach to solving human problems by defining the eight stages of effective decision-making

Overcoming Indecisiveness: The Eight Stages of Effective Decision Making

Psychology & Counseling

Harpercollins

Using the complex lives of four very special characters, short stories reveal the struggles of children who are severely mentally ill and explore how patience and love can reach through to even the most difficult child

Lisa and David / Jordi / Little Ralphie and the Creature: Three remarkable stories of children struggling to find themsleves and their places in this world

Forge Books

Drawing on more than thirty years' experience as a practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin shows the reader the heartrending and hope-filled stories of emotionally disturbed children as they struggle to make it through each day. Along with two classic stories in the literature of psychology, Lisa and David and Jordi, Dr.. Rubin has now added Little Ralphie and the Creature. Together they demonstrate the power of love and its ability to heal. Meet these four extraordinary young people as they search for a place and time in the world where is it safe to be themselves. David: Extremely intelligent, with extraordinary abilities in math, physics, and chess. He is passionately interested in clocks. he cannot bear to be touched, in petrified of germs and human contact. Suffers overwhelming panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Lisa: A schizophrenic who must constantly speak in singsong rhymes to avoid losing herself to Muriel--her moody, brooding, scowling, silent other self. Jordi: Schizophrenic, with autistic tendencies. He's afraid of garbage cans, all garbage cans, because he believes them to be ears. Ears that will hear him. Only his "jiggler"--a doorknob tied to a long string--can offer him an comfort or protection. Little Ralphie: Actue schizophrenic reaction--catatonic type. Ralphie hides in alternate realties to escape his unbearable pain.

Lisa and David/Jordi/Little Ralphie and the Creature

Drawing on more than thirty years' experience as a practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Rubin shows the reader the heartrending and hope-filled stories of emotionally disturbed children as they struggle to make it through each day. To his two classic stories in the literature of psychology, Lisa and David and Jordi, Dr.. Rubin has now added Little Ralphie and the Creature. together they demonstrate the power of love and its ability to heal. Meet these four extraordinary young people as they search for a place and time in the world where is it safe to be themselves. David: Extremely intelligent, with extraordinary abilities in math, physics, and chess. He is passionately interested in clocks. he cannot bear to be touched, in petrified of germs and human contact. Suffers overwhelming panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Lisa: Schizophrenic who must constantly speak in singsong rhymes to avoid losing herself to Muriel--her moody, brooding, scowling, silent other self. Jordi: Schizophrenic, with autistic tendencies. He's afraid of garbage cans, all garbage cans, because he believes them to be ears. Ears that will hear him. Only his "jiggler"--a doorknob tied to a long string--can offer him an comfort or protection. Little Ralphie: Actue schizophrenic reaction--catatonic type. Ralphie hides in alternate realties to escape his unbearable pain.

David and Lisa / Jordi / Little Ralphie and the Creature: Three remarkable stories of children struggling to find themsleves and their places in this world

Drawing on more than thirty years of experience as a practicing psychiatrist, an author examines the nature of human interaction, and helps readers understand why and how relationships work. Reprint.

One To One: Understanding Personal Relationships

Self-Help

Relationships

Jordi Lisa & David

Ballantine Books

Based on his medical training and counseling experience, a leading psychiatrist offers a practical approach to solving human problems by defining the eight stages of effective decision making

Overcoming Indecisiveness: The Eight Stages of Effective Descision-Making

Motivational

Avon/Books

This looks like a 1972 book club edition.

Emergency room diary

Grosset&Dunlap

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