EACH DAY I LIKE IT BETTER: AUTISM, ECT, AND THE TREATMENT OF OUR MOST IMPAIRED CHILDREN

Book ID/图书代码： 03890014B71142

English Summary/英文概要： In the fall of 2009, Amy Lutz and her husband, Andy, struggled with one of the worst decisions parents could possibly face: whether they could safely keep their autistic ten-year-old son, Jonah, at home any longer. Multiple medication trials, a long procession of behavior modification strategies, and even an almost year-long hospitalization had all failed to control his violent rages. Desperate to stop the attacks that endangered family members, caregivers, and even Jonah himself, Amy and Andy decided to try the controversial procedure of electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. Over the last three years, Jonah has received 136 treatments. His aggression has greatly diminished, and for the first time Jonah, now fourteen, is moving to a less restricted school."Each Day I Like It Better" recounts the journeys of Jonah and seven other children and their families (interviewed by the author) in their quests for appropriate educational placements and therapeutic interventions. The author describes their varied, but mostly successful, experiences with ECT.A survey of research on pediatric ECT is incorporated into the narrative, and a foreword by child psychiatrist Dirk Dhossche and ECT researcher and practitioner Charles Kellner explains how ECT works, the side effects patients may experience, and its current use in the treatment of autism, catatonia, and violent behavior in children.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在2009年的秋天，艾米•鲁茨和丈夫安迪正挣扎在父母可能面临的最糟糕的决定之一：他们是否可以安全地保持们患有自闭症的10岁儿子约拿在家里待更长的时间。多种药物试验，长期的行为矫正策略，甚至几乎长达一年的住院治疗也没能控制住他的暴力肆虐。为了阻止对家人，照顾者甚至是约拿自己的有生命危险的攻击，艾米和安迪决定尝试有争议的电休克治疗或ECT治疗。在过去的三年里，约拿已接受了136次治疗。他的侵略已经大大减少，并且现在14岁的约拿首次被送往一个受限制较少的学校上学。《我更爱每一天》讲述了约拿和其他七个孩子以及他们的家庭（由作者采访）寻找合适的教育安置和治疗干预之旅。笔者描述了他们不同的，但大多是成功的接受电休克治疗的经验。对儿童电休克治疗的调查研究被纳入叙事，前言由儿童精神科医生德克所写， ECT研究者和实践者查尔斯•凯尔纳解释了ECT是如何工作的，患者可能出现的副作用，以及目前在治疗自闭症，紧张症和儿童的暴力行为方面的使用。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：“这本书除了是最动人的对这些具有挑战性但灿烂的孩子的父母的爱和奉献的阐述外，这本书也是最好的信息书之一：艾米•鲁茨完全熟悉科学文献，并将它用到自己身上，给世界带来了很大的影响。我自己有时是流着泪打开这本书的，我相信其他读者可能也是如此。”——爱德华•肖特，多伦多大学，《休克疗法：电休克疗法治疗精神疾病的历史》的合著者

"In addition to being one of the most moving accounts imaginable of the love and devotion that parents of these challenging but splendid children bring forth, the book is also one of the best informed: Amy Lutz is thoroughly familiar with the scientific literature, and applies it to her own, stricken world to great effect. I myself was at times close to tears in opening this book, and I think other readers may be as well." --Edward Shorter, University of Toronto, co-author of "Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness"

About the Author/作者介绍： 艾米•S•F•鲁茨所写的关于自闭症的文章，以及她作为五个孩子的母亲所遇到的问题放在“牙牙学语”网站上。她是EASI基金会的创始人之一：结束发育障碍带来的侵略和自残。她的倡导让她成为食品及药物管理局，自闭症间协调委员会和ECT和神经刺激的国际社会的会员。

Amy S.F. Lutz’s writing about autism and other issues she has encountered as the mother of five children has been featured on the websites Babble and Slate. She is one of the founders of EASI Foundation: Ending Aggression and Self-Injury in the Developmentally Disabled. Her advocacy has taken her before the FDA, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, and the International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation.

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