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Love is not enough

a mother's memoir of autism, madness, and hope

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An edition of Love is not enough (2015)

Love is not enough

a mother's memoir of autism, madness, and hope

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When Jenny Lexhed and her husband have their first child, Lucas, they are living the dream. They're happily married, they've just bought a house, the company they built together from the ground up is starting to blossom. But with the arrival of their son, a feeling of anxiety slips into their life. What starts as a feeling becomes a conviction. Lucas is not like other children. Everything seems to indicate, and psychiatric evaluation concludes, that their son is severely autistic. Will he ever be able to communicate? Jenny vows to do whatever she can to help Lucas connect with his parents and others and live an independent life. Tossed between hope and despair, she begins a frantic effort to research the best among many competing therapies and find exactly the right treatment for her son. Her obsession takes her to the brink of exhaustion--and over, when she suffers a psychotic breakdown and must be committed to a psychiatric clinic. There begins another journey, to find her balance and recover her strong, healthy life, before she can begin again to fight for her son. Both brutally honest and deeply affecting, "Love Is Not Enough" is a page-turning memoir that offers insight into autism and what a parent goes through for her child.

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Pages
276

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Edition Notes

Translation of: Det ra˜cker inte med ka˜rlek. Stockholm : Wahlstro˜m & Widstrand, [2008].

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
618.92/858820092, B
Library of Congress
RJ506.A9 L49613 2015, RJ506.A9L49613 20115, RJ506.A9L49613 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 276 pages ;
Number of pages
276

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Open Library
OL26635111M
Internet Archive
loveisnotenoughm0000lexh
ISBN 10
1628724293, 1628726067
ISBN 13
9781628724295, 9781628726060, 9781628724714
LCCN
2014035219
OCLC/WorldCat
891427716

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