Akiva Goldsman’s mother, Mira Rothenberg, wrote a book that is very, very dated but which I own. It’s about her working with schizophrenic and autistic children back when no one rly knew how the fuck anything worked and it’s actually p. interesting. Both of his parents were psychology professionals, though.

actuallyclintbarton:

aaaah very cool, I did not know that!

Seconding that rec, I own that book, it’s called Children With Emerald Eyes and it’s fantastic. I wrote a long review of it on Goodreads, if you want to know more about the content. It’s hard to read at points because of the difficult subject matter, but it’s a very unusual, quality book about post-world war two child psychiatry by a very ahead-of-her-time professional. Rather than dated I’d call it historical. I own a lot of books about child psychiatry, psychology and special needs teaching/therapy (like, over 50, not even counting any of my dedicated autism books, and I’ve read many more), and I can say without hesitation that it’s in my top ten.