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Jane Alison Sherwin's honest and uplifting account provides insight into the challenges of bringing up a child with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA). After years of misdiagnosis, Jane's daughter, Mollie, was diagnosed with PDA at the age of seven, and we follow her experiences pre and post diagnosis to age 10 as she attends school, interacts with the outside world and approaches adolescence. Throughout, Jane provides commentary on her daughter's behaviour and the impact it has on her family, explaining the 'why' of PDA traits, including the need for control, meltdowns, obsessive behaviour and sensory issues. She reveals the strategies that have worked for Mollie and provides essential advice and information on obtaining a diagnosis and raising awareness of PDA. The book also includes an interview with Mollie. Full of advice and support, and with a focus on understanding the child and how he or she sees the world, this book will be of immeasurable value to the parents and families of children with PDA as well as the professionals working with them, particularly teachers and teaching assistants, SEN co-ordinators, psychologists, outreach workers and social workers.
This landmark volume offers a major re-assessment of the art that emerged in Britain in the twenty years following the end of the Second World War: a period of anxiety, profound social change and explosive creativity. Published to coincide with the Barbican Centre's 40th anniversary, it draws together the work of fifty artists, exploring a period straddled precariously between the horror of the past and the promise of the future. Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern will explore a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this time. Through new texts by Jane Alison, Hilary Floe, Ben Highmore, Hammad Nassar and Greg Salter, the book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Eduardo Paolozzi, shown in dialogue with lesser-known figures. These will include those, like Francis Newton Souza, Avinash Chandra and Robert Adams, who were acclaimed by contemporaries but neglected in subsequent history-making; others, like Kim Lim, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Franciszka Themerson, are only now attracting the attention they deserve. Throughout their work, vital shared preoccupations become visible: gender, class, race and nationhood; the body, the bombsite, and the home. It is a period resonating strongly with our own: as the UK emerges from more than a decade of austerity and confronts the challenges of post-pandemic reconstruction, society is asking similarly deep questions about who we want and need to be.
When Jane Alison was a child, her family met another that seemed
like its mirror: a father in the Foreign Service, a beautiful
mother, and two little girls. The youngest girls from each
family--one of them Jane--even shared a birthday.
In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics
follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they
wander a world scarred by colonialism.
In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time
to his body and his beloved city. In New York, Lach savors his
freedom, having just dropped Vera to join his new love, Francesca,
in Venice. In rainy London, Max packs for New Orleans, in pursuit
of Lucinde, a woman he barely knows. From New Orleans, Lucinde
flies to the aid and comfort of Vera, who has accepted a grant to
paint in Venice. While elsewhere in the Crescent City, Anton,
leaving for Venice, sketches a good-bye upon the slumbering body of
his wife, Josephine. With wit, sympathy, and surpassing deftness,
Jane Alison choreographs an intricate dance among these characters,
whom love and loneliness, aspiration and desperation, have drawn to
two famously romantic, venal, and elusive cities of water.
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